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Social media startup Lissn was forced to change its domain name after hackers hijacked its primary one and transferred it to a registrar in another country.San Francisco-based Lissn develops a platform for real-time discussions and events. "Lissn is a social conversation tool," the company says.Last Friday, soon afte... |
27 July 2011
15:53 GMT |
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People trying to access FC Zenit Saint Petersburg's website on Wednesday were greeted by a page slamming two of the city's top politicians, after a hacktivist managed to hijack the club's domain name.According to Sophos, the page displayed the pictures of Saint Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko ... |
7 April 2011
02:30 GMT |
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A disgruntled gamer has managed to hijack the domain, email and Xbox accounts of Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft's director of policy and enforcement for Xbox LIVE.It seems it all started with a social engineering attack against Network Solution, the registrar used by Toulouse for his stepto.com domain.The Xbox offi... |
4 April 2011
10:38 GMT |
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A group of Iranian hacktivists calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army (Ir.CA) have defaced the Voice of America website, as well as 93 other domains, yesterday.The rogue landing page on www.voanews.com and all the other websites displayed the Ir.CA logo, which contains the Iranian flag, and a political message rea... |
22 February 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Fraudsters have managed to hijack the domain name of ChronoPay, Russia's biggest online payment processor, and point it to a fake version of the site in order to steal credit card details.Brian Krebs reports that chronopay.com directed visitors to the phishing page for several hours during the night between Dece... |
30 December 2010
05:57 GMT |
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The domain name of vulnerability research company Secunia was redirected earlier today to an unrelated Web page showing a message in Turkish, after its DNS records were altered.Secunia is one of the world's leading vulnerability intelligence and management vendors. Based in Denmark, the company tracks, rates and... |
25 November 2010
04:42 GMT |
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Two men responsible for hijacking the comcast.net domain in 2008 and redirecting visitors to a rogue website, were sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison.Christopher Allen Lewis, a.k.a. "EBK," 20, of Newark, Delaware, and Michael Paul Nebel, a.k.a. "Slacker," 28, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, both pleaded guilty earlie... |
25 September 2010
04:53 GMT |
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A 21-year-old hacker involved in the 2008 hijacking of the comcast.net domain name, which saw legitimate traffic being redirected to a rogue website, received a four-month prison sentence and was ordered to pay almost $130,000 in restitution.For over five hours during 28 and 29 of May 2008, Comcast customers trying t... |
10 August 2010
15:15 GMT |
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A Turkish hacker has managed to hijack msn.co.il and hotmail.co.il, two domains belonging to Microsoft, and use them to post a pro-Palestinian message. The name servers and administrative email address for the domains have been changed. Users who accessed hotmail.co.il and msn.co.il earlier today were greeted by a p... |
10 June 2010
09:43 GMT |
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An unredacted copy of the complaint filed by Chinese Internet search engine Baidu against Register.com in a New York court last month has surfaced on the Internet. The document reveals that a group of Iranian hacktivists hijacked Baidu's domain name by unconvincingly impersonating a company representative.On Jan... |
26 February 2010
08:39 GMT |
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Unidentified hackers were able to hijack the domain name of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest IT and outsourcing provider in India. The DNS servers were apparently altered in order to redirect the domain to a different server. The attack happened last Sunday, when www.tcs.com displayed a message reading, ... |
9 February 2010
11:02 GMT |
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Baidu, the company operating China's top Web search engine, is holding its domain registrar responsible for last week's security incident, resulting in downtime for its services. The Chinese firm filed a lawsuit in a New York court against U.S.-based Register.com.For several hours on January 12, users who a... |
20 January 2010
05:08 GMT |
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The British Home Office failed to properly decommission a domain name, which was later registered by someone else and used to host a morally questionable website. This caused the old links on its own pages, as well as various electronic documents, to direct visitors to the embarrassing content. The Home Office, form... |
7 April 2009
04:57 GMT |
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