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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. oh shit! by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    looks like the hacker retroactively stole all their credibility!

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

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

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

      Too late: his credibility is lost :D

    3. Re:oh shit! by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      So there credibility is lost. The number of businesses out there who stack everything on a $10 a year relationship is just insane.

      Oh, I see. I didn't realize that the problems was they hadn't spent enough money on their DNS services.

      Tell me, is that a new approach to network security? You just stack up piles of currency around the DNS server and then there's nothing to worry about?

      I can't think of a single reason that you shouldn't expect your DNS services to be secure, no matter how little you happen to be paying for it.

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  2. (c) 2005 TurkGuvenligi by Lord_Naikon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lol, why would he care about copyright? Afraid some other hacker might steal his logo?

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

      If they do that would be illegal!

  3. 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.

  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. 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.

    1. Re:Corrections by NickFortune · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

      ... which is actually kind of cool, seeing as how the Slashdot Effect seems to be wreaking it's usual havoc on the hacker's servers.

      Every now and then, reality self-organises in the direction of justice.

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