The Register Hacked 192
First time accepted submitter rjmx writes "Looks like The Register has been hacked. Its front page has been replaced with a page in tasteful red and black, apparently by a Turkish hacker."
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Site wasn't hacked, DNS was (Score:3, Informative)
If you saw the "hacked" page, you were being routed to a different server.
Re:(c) 2005 TurkGuvenligi (Score:5, Informative)
If they do that would be illegal!
Re:Site wasn't hacked, DNS was (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Website hacked? (Score:2, Informative)
thats not theregisters.co.uk 404, they have a custom 404
what you are seeing is the result of DNS poisoning of your ISP, the 404 is from someone elses server
the actual site is fine and has NOT been hacked.
ps the real IP of the reg is 212.100.234.54
Re:HAxorS (Score:5, Informative)
Re:oh shit! (Score:5, Informative)
No credibility lost, it's not them who got hacked but their DNS provider.
Corrections (Score:5, Informative)
If cannot live without The Register, put into your hosts file
Linux: /etc/hosts
Windows: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host
these two lines:
72.3.246.59 theregister.co.uk
72.3.246.59 www.theregister.co.uk
And the summary of the article is apparently wrong, someone stole/hacked into TheRegister DNS zone, TheRegister www servers are intact.
Re:oh shit! (Score:5, Informative)
Too late: his credibility is lost :D
DNS hack, some ok some down still, (Score:3, Informative)
Using Just-Ping to check from 50+ locations around the world only 5% have what is traditionally the correct IP (212.100.234.54 according to Netcraft) or so have the current IP most say the DNS is down.
http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=www.theregister.co.uk&c=&s=ping [just-ping.com]!
I forced an update with Netcraft it now has a record of the another IP 68.68.20.116 with different server headers which I presume is the broken site.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.theregister.co.uk [netcraft.com]
The hackers could have done more damage if they also increased the TTL of the domains they poisoned. 24 hours seems to be the time atm.