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Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by seiji »

jval wrote: post #26

Ok, firstly whois Microsoft.com just returns all URLs with Microsoft.com in them, even as a subdomain, so they haven't been hacked and that result has been there for ages. Same goes for Verisign etc. TechCrunch is reporting that registrar MelbourneIT has been hacked.. This wouldn't surprise me but I'm puzzled as to why either site would register with such a bad registrar.

Corrections:

They aren't URLs, they are domain names.

The ones that aren't the domain name you are looking for are glue records.

There's no way to globally search "show me every corp.*.com domain in existence."

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by Shank »

While they may have fixed twimg.com on the DNS level, changes are still taking forver to propogate back out. Right now I'm still getting no data from it.

To add to the matter, SEA is certainly aware of this:

"So, do we host http://twimg.com with Javascript code so all Twitter users will be redirect to our website? #SEA"

https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/372496956020379648

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by ballard »

Questionoor wrote: post #23

SEA has a history of doing much more than attempting to offset perceived propaganda[1]. With in that site is dozens of gigabytes of logs from Bluecoat[2] proxy hardware that sat in datacenters for Syrian ISPs. A good amount of what is contained in the logs is things like porn searches, more porn, porn. But amongst the typical naughty bits things like religious queries for Christians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims were bei…

Makes you wonder whom has access to Palantir.

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by cpursley »

"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists"

Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all.

This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal.

If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT times were actually the Syrian government, they'd be going after US government targets in an effort to undermine the bombing that's about to begin.

Their regime is about to get bombed. Taking down twitter is low on their priority list. But it's quite good timing for a propaganda campaign against "hackers" and now allows the US government to label hackers as terrorists. Scary stuff.

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by jacquesm »

cpursley wrote: post #44

"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists" Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all. This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT ti…

> This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal.

You can't know for sure it is a false flag operation, but you can't easily rule it out either.

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by InclinedPlane »

signed0 wrote: post #13

Woah! Has Verisign been hacked? $ whois twitter.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. TWITTER.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM TWITTER.COM And then: $ whois verisign.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be regi…

  whois twitter.com => whois(".*twitter\.com.*")

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by bpicolo »

fotcorn wrote: post #12

The twitter frontpage is completly broken for me. Static assets like css and javascript are served by twimg.com, which are now missing. If SEA has access to a server which can take the load of twimg.com, they can inject their Javascript and possible exploits to ALL twitter users...

Seems fine now

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by krelian »

cpursley wrote: post #44

"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists" Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all. This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT ti…

If you think they are so sophisticated to create this false flag operation why are the targets and magnitude of this so lame?

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by jnbiche »

krelian wrote: post #49
cpursley wrote: post #44

"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists" Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all. This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT ti…

If you think they are so sophisticated to create this false flag operation why are the targets and magnitude of this so lame?

NYTimes and Twitter are lame targets? In the US, at least, you don't get a much higher profile non-government target than the NY Times. I mean, if this were a false flag operation -- and I'm not convinced it is -- then the three-letter guys wouldn't very likely chose to target themselves, or other government, would they? They would portray them as being inept at defending themselves.
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