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Iranian Hackers Suspected in Worldwide DNS Hijacking Campaign (zdnet.com)
US cybersecurity firm FireEye has uncovered an extremely sophisticated hacking campaign during which a suspected Iranian group redirected traffic from companies all over their globe through their own malicious servers, recording company credentials for future attacks. From a news report: Affected organizations include telecoms, ISPs, internet infrastructure providers, government, and sensitive commercial entities across the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and North America. FireEye analysts believe an Iranian-based group is behind the attacks, although there is no definitive proof for exact attribution just yet. Researchers said the entities targeted by the group have no financial value, but they would be of interest to the Iranian government.
When Republicans lie, all they effectively do is make their tiny penis just that much shorter. There are few males left. FYI that was Iran's money that the US had taken illegally and was compelled to give back by a court, in fact, and the way Obama got them to agree to the payment WITHOUT INTEREST was very much in the US best interest as it saved billions in EXTRA money that would have been paid to Iran. So yes, thanks Obama.
TLDR, basically Republicans are faggots who lie about everything.
This is timely. Right now, because of the shutdown, there are a lot of government domains whose certs are not being renewed, because there are no sysadmins able to renew them. So, with an expired cert, all it takes is a DNS attack to redirect someone from foo.gov to foo.ir, as the user is almost certainly not going to examine the cert and manually check its pedigree and dates.
This is going to cause grave security concerns going forward.