DNS attacks on popular websites
September 4, 2011 – 5:03 PMKeep in mind that today’s DNS hacks of popular websites such as acer.com, ups.com, theregister.co.uk were just that. A DNS hack. The actual sites themselves have not been compromised. For example:
UPS.com was altered to point to ups.com.85621INNSns1.yumurtakabugu.com
The attackers only changed the NS records for the website. This could have been much worse.
References:
http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=11503&rss
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/04/dns-hack-hits-popular-websites-telegraph-register-ups-etc/
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