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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 lampooned »

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…

Facebook's whois result is pretty funny.

   $ whois facebook.com

   Whois Server Version 2.0

   Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
   IP Address: 69.41.185.229
   Registrar: TUCOWS DOMAINS INC.
   Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
   Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net

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

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Post by jacques_chester »

joshfraser wrote: post #33
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.

What do you mean? MelbourneIT are huge and generally have a pretty decent reputation.

MelbourneIT have incumbency and good marketing. I've never been all that impressed with their prices or service.

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

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Post by 15charusername »

dobbsbob wrote: post #15

US is about to bomb Syrian military assets so this is Iran's response. The SEA is clearly Iranian. Email them something in Farsi or PM one of their propaganda accounts on youtube they usually answer. last time I checked ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com was hosted out of Russia and includes " qatar-leaks.com" which seems to have disappeared

Why Iran? Surely Russia is a bigger suspect, but right now, my biggest suspect would be the NSA/CIA, the timing of the Syrian escalation is just too perfect.

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

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Post by eshvk »

15charusername wrote: post #73
dobbsbob wrote: post #15

US is about to bomb Syrian military assets so this is Iran's response. The SEA is clearly Iranian. Email them something in Farsi or PM one of their propaganda accounts on youtube they usually answer. last time I checked ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com was hosted out of Russia and includes " qatar-leaks.com" which seems to have disappeared

Why Iran? Surely Russia is a bigger suspect, but right now, my biggest suspect would be the NSA/CIA, the timing of the Syrian escalation is just too perfect.

Why is Russia a bigger suspect? A study of foreign policy and defence would appear to suggest that Iran perceives that it is under threat of invasion from America.

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Post by pseudometa »

15charusername wrote: post #73
dobbsbob wrote: post #15

US is about to bomb Syrian military assets so this is Iran's response. The SEA is clearly Iranian. Email them something in Farsi or PM one of their propaganda accounts on youtube they usually answer. last time I checked ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com was hosted out of Russia and includes " qatar-leaks.com" which seems to have disappeared

Why Iran? Surely Russia is a bigger suspect, but right now, my biggest suspect would be the NSA/CIA, the timing of the Syrian escalation is just too perfect.

Dusting off my tin foil hat, I would go with Israel in collusion with the NSA/CIA. They have the most to gain by turning the media against Syria and the technical capabilities as proven with their involvement in stuxnet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

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Post by rhizome »

mpyne wrote: post #68
jacquesm wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortunately it's really hard to make a Twitter account, what with all the passport checks and ID verification that goes on there. Only real, verified SEA members would be able to create such an account. And only when directly logging in from a verified Syrian government IP.

Go check the account [1] for yourself, if it's fake it's a long-planted fake strung along with other tweets dating back to August 15th and earlier and describing other known SEA hacks. If it's not legit it would have to be because they let their own Twitter account get hacked at the same time Twitter was being hacked... which seems very noncompliant with Occam. [1] https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16

The word "credulous" comes to mind.

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

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Post by mehmehshoe »

N0RMAN wrote: post #30

the traceroute for twimg.com end's in russia, I'm right? (141.105.64.37)

Yup. The biggest fallout from this won't be that those big sites were down for hours, it will be the millions of computers that redirected to that IP.

http://blog.opendns.com/2013/08/27/high-profile-domains-unde...

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

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Post by lettergram »

rtpg wrote: post #53
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…

Have we heard any government officials calling for any drastic attack on your civil liberties yet? If you think people can't make the difference between the SEA and people who browse reddit and privacy activists, then you're setting the bar pretty low for the intelligence of the population. Especially considering people are getting more and more informed Your need for a conspiracy seems pretty great

I disagree with the conspiracy idea, but from what I've seen the bar should be pretty low for the intelligence of the population (at least in this area). Most of the people I know ignore pretty much everything that has been going on with snowden and as for the SEA, they would probably thing it was part of the Syrian government.

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

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Post by bandushrew »

eshvk wrote: post #74
15charusername wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why Iran? Surely Russia is a bigger suspect, but right now, my biggest suspect would be the NSA/CIA, the timing of the Syrian escalation is just too perfect.

Why is Russia a bigger suspect? A study of foreign policy and defence would appear to suggest that Iran perceives that it is under threat of invasion from America.

If I seriously believed I was under actual threat of invasion from the US, I am not sure I would piss away my resources getting monkeys to deface a brochure.
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