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Hacking Group 'OurMine' Temporarily Redirected WikiLeaks DNS Service (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian:
WikiLeaks suffered an embarrassing cyber-attack when Saudi Arabian-based hacking group OurMine took over its web address. The attack saw visitors to WikiLeaks.org redirected to a page created by OurMine which claimed that the attack was a response to a challenge from the organisation to hack them.
But while it may have been humiliating for WikiLeaks, which prides itself on technical competency, the actual âoehackâ appears to have been a low-tech affair: the digital equivalent of spray-painting graffiti on the front of a bank then claiming to have breached its security. The group appears to have carried out an attack known as "DNS poisoning" for a short while on Thursday morning. Rather than attacking WikiLeaks' servers directly, they have convinced one or more DNS servers...to alter their records. For a brief period, those DNS servers told browsers that wikileaks.org was actually located on a server controlled by OurMine.
But while it may have been humiliating for WikiLeaks, which prides itself on technical competency, the actual âoehackâ appears to have been a low-tech affair: the digital equivalent of spray-painting graffiti on the front of a bank then claiming to have breached its security. The group appears to have carried out an attack known as "DNS poisoning" for a short while on Thursday morning. Rather than attacking WikiLeaks' servers directly, they have convinced one or more DNS servers...to alter their records. For a brief period, those DNS servers told browsers that wikileaks.org was actually located on a server controlled by OurMine.
If Nazi websites are being taken down and their domains are being terminated, why do other terrorist organizations like Wikileaks get a double standard? If there ever was a foreign entity trying to meddle in the US election, it was Wikileaks. And yet you people give them a free pass. Seize their domain like you did to the Nazis. And in the interests of fairness, let's point out that liberals demanded that Trump condemn white supremacy after the Charlottesville attacks. Muslims use the same tactic and have a history of driving cars into a bunch of pedestrians to attack them. Next time Muslims commit a terrorist attack, liberals need to condemn Islam. Eliminate these double standards.