The Register pwned...

Macro · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:41

Looks like they got hacked. Was going to wonder who they'd upset but that could be a long list

StoutMeister · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:44

qqg3 · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:45

Ooppss!

Turambar · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:48

Looks like this was a pro job....

PapaLazaru · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:50

UPS was showing the same but is down now.

OllyM · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:52

It's Ascio that has been hacked (apparently). betfair.com has also had its nameservers changed along with acer.com and vodafone.com (and loads of others I expect!).

Macro · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:58

oopsy...

RJC · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:59

Oops !

PardonTheWait · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:01

I like the tagline, hacking is not a crime...

Sort of is though, isn't it? You ****ing idiots

jon86 · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:04

Ascio, betfair.com and vodafone.com are working. Acer.com isn't though...

Macro · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:05

PardonTheWait said:
I like the tagline, hacking is not a crime...

Sort of is though, isn't it? You ****ing idiots

lol...

Same thing at telegraph.co.uk....

PeterNem · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:15

Code:

$ for i in betfair.com theregister.co.uk acer.com telegraph.co.uk vodafone.com ups.com; do echo $i; whois $i | egrep 'ns[12]'; done
betfair.com
  ns1.yumurtakabugu.com (NSYUMURT1119540)
  ns2.yumurtakabugu.com (NSYUMURT1119541)
theregister.co.uk
        ns1.yumurtakabugu.com
        ns2.yumurtakabugu.com
acer.com
  ns1.yumurtakabugu.com (NSYUMURT1119540)
  ns2.yumurtakabugu.com (NSYUMURT1119541)
telegraph.co.uk
        ns1.yumurtakabugu.com
        ns2.yumurtakabugu.com
vodafone.com
  ns1.dc-ratingen.de (NSDCRATI495)
  ns2.dc-ratingen.de (NSDCRATI162)
ups.com
  ns1.yumurtakabugu.com (NSYUMURT1119540)
  ns2.yumurtakabugu.com (NSYUMURT1119541)

Voda looks okay, not so the others.

Cosimo · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:19

jon86 said:
Ascio, betfair.com and vodafone.com are working. Acer.com isn't though...

Acer is for me.

Macro · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:23

@rupertg: DNS hack is redirecting El Reg, the D Tel, Betfair, UPS, Acer and other sites to Turkish hackers. Fix will take 3hrs to propagate.

asim18 · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:29

simulatorman said:
Acer is for me.

Acer.com is fine, but Acer.co.uk isn't working for me.

Cosimo · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:35

asim18 said:
Acer.com is fine, but Acer.co.uk isn't working for me.

THe UK site is ok for me as well.

Pixel · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:38

Aren't The Register generally for freedom of information, etc? Why would hackers target them?

Gackt · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:55

Pixel said:
Aren't The Register generally for freedom of information, etc? Why would hackers target them?

Probably because they can.

A lot of hackers just do it for the sake of hacking. I imagine some want tighter controls on the internet/restricted freedoms.

kylew · 4 Sep 2011 at 23:46

PardonTheWait said:
I like the tagline, hacking is not a crime...

Sort of is though, isn't it? You ****ing idiots

Maybe they should learn the proper definition of hacking first?

kylew · 4 Sep 2011 at 23:47

Pixel said:
Aren't The Register generally for freedom of information, etc? Why would hackers target them?

It's not personal, so they've not been targeted specifically because of who they are what content they publish.