Comcast Briefly Loses Control of Its Domain Name 222
Fallen Andy notes that Comcast, one of the largest US ISPs, lost control of its domain name to what appeared to be juvenile social engineers of the old school — i.e. not in it for the money. The intruders got into Comcast's registrar account at Network Solutions and repointed the domain's DNS records. A blog entry at SANS points out how trivially easy this can be. Reader ElvenKnight points out an insightful interview up at Wired with the two young guys who perpetrated the hack.
These guys are my heroes (Score:5, Funny)
Now *THAT'S* hacking.
I know who did it... (Score:5, Funny)
Stupid password (Score:3, Funny)
Right.... it was probably 1234 (same as most slashdotter's luggage)
Re:The consequences might not be as fun (Score:1, Funny)
Thats just sad.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:These guys are my heroes (Score:5, Funny)
Comcast: OMG!!! Outrageous!!! Some HACKERS denied us access to our OWN DOMAIN NAME!!!! Get them!!!!
FBI: Why? They didn't take anything that belongs to you.
Comcast: What??? Out contract with ICANN gives us unlimited access to the Comcast domain!
FBI: Right. And what does unlimited mean?
Comcast: Look, it's right here in Websters: "without any
FBI: No, no, not that one, use your own internal glossary.
Comcast: Okay then, "unlimited: "
Re:The consequences might not be as fun (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stupid password (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The consequences might not be as fun (Score:5, Funny)
Excuse me while I listen to Barry Goldwater rolling in his grave.
Re:The consequences might not be as fun (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The consequences might not be as fun (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The consequences might not be as fun (Score:5, Funny)
Just the other day, I had a fast food burger, and the terrorists left out the pickle. Then I went to get gas, but the pump had been broken by terrorists. After finally getting gas, I discovered the terrorists have been jacking up fuel prices so I didn't have enough cash. The terrorists must have been disrupting the banking system, because it took several minutes to access my funds by debit card. The terrorists had been messing with the stop lights as well, since they were completely out of sync.
Finally, I got home and discovered my wife must be a terrorist, since she overcooked the roast. Then I tried watching the news, but terrorists kept interrupting it with ads for things I didn't want to buy. Disillusioned, I decided to go throw a ball around with my son Billy. It's one of the few pleasures I can still find in this dangerous, terror-infested world. You wouldn't believe what happened! My son threw the ball badly, and I got a grass stain on my slacks when diving for it. I'm afraid I'll have to call DHS and get them to start a dossier on Billy now.
I hope the terrorists don't turn off my alarm clock in the night again. If I'm late for one more day of work, I'm pretty sure the terrorists in human resources are going to fire me.
Re:Some lessons from all this. (Score:3, Funny)
But they won't let me take a bong into the library.
Re:The consequences might not be as fun (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately, being assholes is not a crime.
Oh, wait. That cuts both ways in this case, huh?