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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."

8 of 192 comments (clear)

  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: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.

  4. 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.
  5. 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.

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

    Too late: his credibility is lost :D

  7. 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.