Fallen Andy notes that Comcast, one of the largest US ISPs, lost control of its domain name to what appeared to be juvenile social engineers of the old school — i.e. not in it for the money. The intruders got into Comcast’s registrar account at Network Solutions and repointed the domain’s DNS records. A blog entry at SANS points out how trivially simple this can be. Reader ElvenKnight points out an insightful interview up at Wired with the two young guys who perpetrated the hack.
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