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The Register Hacked

Posted by samzenpus on from the down-time dept.

First time accepted submitter rjmx writes "Looks like The Register has been hacked. Its front page has been replaced with a page in tasteful red and black, apparently by a Turkish hacker."

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  1. Site wasn't hacked, DNS was by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you saw the "hacked" page, you were being routed to a different server.

    1. Re:Site wasn't hacked, DNS was by Rhodri+Mawr · · Score: 4, Informative

      Mod parent up. This appears to be a case of DNS cache poisoning. Notably www.reghardware.com is unaffected.

  2. Re:(c) 2005 TurkGuvenligi by godrik · · Score: 4, Informative

    If they do that would be illegal!

  3. Re:Website hacked? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    thats not theregisters.co.uk 404, they have a custom 404

    what you are seeing is the result of DNS poisoning of your ISP, the 404 is from someone elses server
    the actual site is fine and has NOT been hacked.
    ps the real IP of the reg is 212.100.234.54

  4. Re:HAxorS by zonky · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like a number of sites affected, all of them seem to be using netnames.co.uk as their registrar, looks like DNS Servers all changed.

  5. Re:oh shit! by KiloByte · · Score: 4, Informative

    No credibility lost, it's not them who got hacked but their DNS provider.

    --
    The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  6. Corrections by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 5, Informative

    If cannot live without The Register, put into your hosts file

    Linux: /etc/hosts
    Windows: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host

    these two lines:

    72.3.246.59 theregister.co.uk
    72.3.246.59 www.theregister.co.uk

    And the summary of the article is apparently wrong, someone stole/hacked into TheRegister DNS zone, TheRegister www servers are intact.

  7. Re:oh shit! by mickwd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Too late: his credibility is lost :D

  8. DNS hack, some ok some down still, by Rovastar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Using Just-Ping to check from 50+ locations around the world only 5% have what is traditionally the correct IP (212.100.234.54 according to Netcraft) or so have the current IP most say the DNS is down.
    http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=www.theregister.co.uk&c=&s=ping!

    I forced an update with Netcraft it now has a record of the another IP 68.68.20.116 with different server headers which I presume is the broken site.

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.theregister.co.uk

    The hackers could have done more damage if they also increased the TTL of the domains they poisoned. 24 hours seems to be the time atm.