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Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine
msm1267 writes "Metasploit's HD Moore says hackers sent a spoofed DNS change request via fax to Register.com that the registrar accepted, leading to a DNS hijacking attack against the Metasploit and Rapid7 websites. The two respective homepages were defaced with a message left by the same hacker collective that claimed responsibility for a similar DNS attack against Network Solutions. Rapid7 said the two sites' DNS records have been locked down and they are investigating."
Counts as both wire fraud and CFAA violations
Why does your browser use a crappy font for monospaced text? There's a setting for that. Mine uses Consolas. It's readable. And it differentiates between O and 0, and other characters that look similar (if not identical) in most other fonts.
No, then it would be mail fraud, of course. US law treats the two pretty much the same, however; both are defined in Title 18 of the US Code, mail fraud in Section 1341, wire fraud in Section 1343.
Except that's called "cracking" or "conning", not "hacking". Infiltrating computer systems is only hacking in so far as you're writing code with which to do it. That's why "script kiddies" are not hackers.