Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Feb 3 15:31:05 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Wheeler" <jsw at inconcepts.biz>

> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> <ops.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So what part of VRSN got broken into? They do a lot more than just
> > DNS.
> 
> Indeed, VeriSign owns Illuminet, who are mission-critical for POTS.
> Illuminet is also in the business of recording telephone calls, SMS
> messages, etc. for law enforcement.

"Illuminet"?

Shea and Wilson would be proud.

Cheers,
-- jr 'and somewhere, an evil geek is dry-washing his hands' a
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