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Hundreds of Pakistani sites diverted after domain hack

posted onNovember 26, 2012
by l33tdawg

Turkish hackers managed to divert the domain name system (DNS) entries for several hundred Pakistani sites in the .pk top-level domain over the weekend,

On Saturday, Pakistani programmer Irfan Ahmad listed some 110 sites in the .pk TLD that had been subverted.

These included several high-profile ones, such as Google, Microsoft, Sony, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco domains which had their authoritative nameservers records changed to ones at US webhost freehostia.com. The attack is thought to have been carried out by Turkish hackers Eboz, with the total number of sites diverted being as high as 285.

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