Craigslist hacked?

Randy Epstein nanog at hostleasing.net
Tue Nov 25 00:55:35 UTC 2014



On 11/24/14, 7:51 PM, "Mark Andrews" <marka at isc.org> wrote:

>
>In message <D09934E0.BE620%nanog at hostleasing.net>, Randy Epstein writes:
>> On 11/24/14, 7:16 PM, "George Herbert" <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >He didn't hack the registry, he hijacked its records.  And this is far
>> >from the first time a registry account was hacked.  But, yeah, *still*
>> >not secure enough.
>>
>> Actually, he didnâ•˙t hack its records either.  He exploited a bug in
>>BIND.
>
>And your evidence for that is what?  Feel free to send to
>security-officer at isc.org.
>
>Mark

I could be wrong.  This is what was reported by a few back in 1997.  If
not true, so be it.  I have no further details from something that
occurred 17 years ago.


> 
>> >George William Herbert
>> >Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> >> On Nov 24, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Randy Epstein <nanog at hostleasing.net>
>> >>wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On 11/24/14, 5:08 PM, "Michael T. Voity" <mvoity at uvm.edu> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I hate to say this, But I think that Network Operators have not see
>> the
>> >>> last of of this DNS Hijacking. Craigslist might have been a test to
>> see
>> >>> how far they could get and how long it would take for it to be
>> >>> discovered.   I hope the FBI and the other Federal agencies out
>>there
>> >>> are involved with Craigslist to determine how this happened and put
>>in
>> >>> safeguards in place to help prevent this from happening again.
>> >>>
>> >>> -Mike
>> >>>
>> >>> Michael T. Voity
>> >>> Network Engineer
>> >>> University of Vermont
>> >>
>> >> Anyone heard from Eugene Kashpureff lately?
>> >>
>> >> Hello 1996.  :)
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>
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