The sysadmins need to change the DNS to point to a status page, perform forensic dumps of the servers, and perform incident response 101 ASAP. There's no excuse leaving an attacker controlled message up for hours.
Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup
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#12its not india's leading startup.
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#13Perhaps some users are unhappy with this:
https://www.techinasia.com/india-housing-ceo-released-by-boa... http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/01/rahul-yadav-fired-as-housin...
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#14The sysadmins need to change the DNS to point to a status page, perform forensic dumps of the servers, and perform incident response 101 ASAP. There's no excuse leaving an attacker controlled message up for hours.
True. They seems helpless.
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#15I suspect this is an inside job of some of the employees
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#16The sysadmins need to change the DNS to point to a status page, perform forensic dumps of the servers, and perform incident response 101 ASAP. There's no excuse leaving an attacker controlled message up for hours.
True. They seems helpless.
Or complicit. The message posted sounds like a plea to return the recently departed CEO to power, or am I misreading it?
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#17If nothing else, the level of immaturity of conduct by housing.com's ex-CEO and his followers within the company is definitely hurting the burgeoning startup scene in India real bad. To make matters worse, this comes at a time when foreign VC firms/banks were only starting to get comfortable investing sizable amounts of money in Indian startups at a pre-profitability stage. My only hope is that the people in the tech community world over do not stereotype Indian startups to this one bad apple, and up and coming Indian entrepreneurs do not assume this is acceptable and normal.
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#18Interesting that there is no HTML just a direct link to an image.
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#19Steve Jobs lite
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#20If nothing else, the level of immaturity of conduct by housing.com's ex-CEO and his followers within the company is definitely hurting the burgeoning startup scene in India real bad. To make matters worse, this comes at a time when foreign VC firms/banks were only starting to get comfortable investing sizable amounts of money in Indian startups at a pre-profitability stage. My only hope is that the people in the tech…
I am surprised to see, that people are not able to redirect it to some decent maintenance page. What could have gone wrong at tech?