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Friday 27 June 2008, 4:39 PM
ICANN sites hijacked?
Just a day after ICANN opened up domain rules, a Turkish group of hackers has messed with some of the Internet body's sites, according to a report on Zone-H.
The report says that the NetDevilz group redirected visitors to "icann.net" and other ICANN sites to a hosting space that carried the following message:
"You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don’t you believe us?"
In addition to targeting ICANN, which looks after administration of top-level domains, the hackers also went after sites belonging to IANA, which oversees IP addresses and DNS root management, Zone-H said.
But it doesn't look like the organisations' main URLS, &mdash: "icann.org" and "iana.org" — were affected, just less alternatives such as "icann.com" and "iana.com". Which makes you wonder: Once businesses are able to use any domain suffix, as approved yesterday, won't that give hackers even more scope for hijackers?
The report says that the NetDevilz group redirected visitors to "icann.net" and other ICANN sites to a hosting space that carried the following message:
"You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don’t you believe us?"
In addition to targeting ICANN, which looks after administration of top-level domains, the hackers also went after sites belonging to IANA, which oversees IP addresses and DNS root management, Zone-H said.
But it doesn't look like the organisations' main URLS, &mdash: "icann.org" and "iana.org" — were affected, just less alternatives such as "icann.com" and "iana.com". Which makes you wonder: Once businesses are able to use any domain suffix, as approved yesterday, won't that give hackers even more scope for hijackers?
Monday 2 June 2008, 11:45 AM
Join the server discussion on Uptime
Today we're launching a new group blog dedicated to servers--those essential but maybe unglamourous workhorses of the enterprise. It's called Uptime and you can find it here. (We reluctantly rejected 'Farmers Weekly' as someone had already nabbed that title...)
We're sure that many of you are dealing with server management as a part of your job, that you are thinking hard about which trends you need to keep on top of, and that you'd like to know what others are thinking. The Uptime blog is a place to share those thoughts and decisions, whether you're running two machines or two thousand.
We got a snapshot of what's going on in server rooms in a couple of recent ZDNet UK surveys — take a look and see what you make of the results. Make a blog post, and tick the checkbox for the Uptime server management blog. The post will appear in the group blog as well as in your personal blog.
To get the ball rolling, we'll give an iPod to the member who makes the most useful contribution in the first few weeks. That's not bad, is it?
We're sure that many of you are dealing with server management as a part of your job, that you are thinking hard about which trends you need to keep on top of, and that you'd like to know what others are thinking. The Uptime blog is a place to share those thoughts and decisions, whether you're running two machines or two thousand.
We got a snapshot of what's going on in server rooms in a couple of recent ZDNet UK surveys — take a look and see what you make of the results. Make a blog post, and tick the checkbox for the Uptime server management blog. The post will appear in the group blog as well as in your personal blog.
To get the ball rolling, we'll give an iPod to the member who makes the most useful contribution in the first few weeks. That's not bad, is it?
