As well as El Reg, a lot of other prominent UK sites seem to be also unavailable (YMMV), perhaps because of fallout from trying to fix the hack.
World Hacker Day DNS attack takes down UK sites
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World Hacker Day DNS attack takes down UK sites
http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/09/th ... e-got.html
As well as El Reg, a lot of other prominent UK sites seem to be also unavailable (YMMV), perhaps because of fallout from trying to fix the hack.
As well as El Reg, a lot of other prominent UK sites seem to be also unavailable (YMMV), perhaps because of fallout from trying to fix the hack.
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Re: World Hacker Day DNS attack takes down UK sites
It was a SQL injection attack on the DNS provider NetNames:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05 ... e_updated/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05 ... e_updated/
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Re: World Hacker Day DNS attack takes down UK sites
LOL:klr wrote:It was a SQL injection attack on the DNS provider NetNames:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05 ... e_updated/
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Re: World Hacker Day DNS attack takes down UK sites
Seraph wrote:LOL:klr wrote:It was a SQL injection attack on the DNS provider NetNames:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05 ... e_updated/
It's working for me here at w**k, but who knows if I'll be able to access it at home this evening ...
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Re: World Hacker Day DNS attack takes down UK sites
I used to have a Legion of Doom World Internet Tour '91 T-shirt, it had a big list of domains with IP addresses instead of cities and dates.
Not that I ever did anything naughty back then.
Not that I ever did anything naughty back then.
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