The Register Hacked

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Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 4, 2011 @08:20AM 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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Re:(c) 2005 TurkGuvenligi by godrik · 2011-09-04 08:29 · Score: 4, Informative

If they do that would be illegal!
Re:Site wasn't hacked, DNS was by Rhodri+Mawr · 2011-09-04 08:38 · Score: 4, Informative

Mod parent up. This appears to be a case of DNS cache poisoning. Notably www.reghardware.com is unaffected.
Re:HAxorS by zonky · 2011-09-04 08:43 · 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.
Re:oh shit! by KiloByte · 2011-09-04 08:44 · Score: 4, Informative

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

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The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Corrections by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · 2011-09-04 09:03 · 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.
Re:oh shit! by mickwd · 2011-09-04 09:28 · Score: 5, Informative

Too late: his credibility is lost :D