

Both domains have been restored and protected











Source: Reuters

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RE: Amazing
By SAN-Man on 8/29/2013 9:06:34 AM , Rating: 2
Why is it amazing?

It's a web site, not a nuclear reactor. There is no real world tangible damage here.

Sure, in an ideal world there would be separate service account for each domain and they would be changed weekly, but in truth it doesn't always work that way.

Let's be clear what happened here - Twitter, NYT, etc weren't "hacked" or "taken control of" - the company they pay to manger (hold) their Internet domains was breached and DNS records were changed. So instead of point to IP (the correct web server) the record was changed to point to (the bad guy web server).

That's it!! Really, no hacking was involved here - just sloppy security.

