Hackers Breached Greece's Top-Level Domain Registrar (zdnet.com) 17
State-sponsored hackers have breached ICS-Forth, the organization that manages Greece's top-level domain country codes of .gr and .el. From a report: ICS-Forth, which stands for the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology, publicly admitted to the security incident in emails it sent to domain owners on April 19. The hackers behind the breach are the same group detailed in a Cisco Talos report from April, which the company named Sea Turtle. The group uses a relatively novel approach to hacking targets. Instead of targeting victims directly, they breach or gain access to accounts at domain registrars and managed DNS providers where they make modifications to a company's DNS settings. By modifying DNS records for internal servers, they redirect traffic meant for a company's legitimate apps or webmail services to clone servers where they carry out man-in-the-middle attacks and intercept login credentials.
What are the ramifications? (Score:2)
Am I supposed to read the article to find out?
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Am I supposed to read the article to find out?
You're supposed to have at least a slight passing interest in this whole technology thing. Isn't that why you're here?
ccTld's and registrars have been around since the mid 80's, how can you not have picked up what they do by this point?
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My post was actually trying to be a joke riffing on the 'we don't read the article' reputation of /.er's.
Seems legit (Score:2)
I mean, the word security doesn't appear anywhere in
Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology,
Tnat costs extra.
"state-sponsored" label again? (Score:2)