• New York Times website 'hacked'
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23859572#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa[/url]
Was it actually 'hacked', or was it just a DDoS attack?
Thank you BBC for putting the word 'hacked' in quotes. Most news outlets think DOS/DDOS etc attacks are hacking but in reality they are pretty fucking legal in a lot of countries etc and often companies play off a server outage etc as a hack to not be as embarrassed. [sp]Or a sysadmin could have dun fucked up and blames a virus[/sp]
[QUOTE=st_nick5;41989703]Was it actually 'hacked', or was it just a DDoS attack?[/QUOTE] Uh did you read the article. It was redirected to another website. That is hacking.
[QUOTE=Jsm;41990337]Uh did you read the article. It was redirected to another website. That is hacking.[/QUOTE] They could have fucked with their DNS server and that's not really 'hacking' if you ask me. Any fucktard with a tool can do that.
[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;41990709]They could have fucked with their DNS server and that's not really 'hacking' if you ask me. Any fucktard with a tool can do that.[/QUOTE] That is literally the definition of hacking, even if you can do it with a simple tool.
[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;41990709]They could have fucked with their DNS server and that's not really 'hacking' if you ask me. Any fucktard with a tool can do that.[/QUOTE] You mean like this guy here? [img]http://i.imgur.com/vsFRn7k.png[/img] I'm curious as to who exactly is doing this, considering that it looks like they really want to start shit.
[QUOTE=Jsm;41990811]That is literally the definition of hacking, even if you can do it with a simple tool.[/QUOTE] The original definition is playfull cleverness with computers.
get #rekt
they could have been doing something similar to this. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning[/url] Haven't messed around with DNS servers a lot so I can't give a 100% guarantee that this is what they did.
[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;41991058]they could have been doing something similar to this. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning[/url] Haven't messed around with DNS servers a lot so I can't give a 100% guarantee that this is what they did.[/QUOTE] The WHOIS for the domain is showing the contact as "SEA" so the actual domain ownership could have been changed. Or its a coincidence as the twitter says the same thing.
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