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05-29-2008, 09:22 AM
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Starting late yesterday, Comcast users began noticing that Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/) has been hacked. More technically, early indications are that someone hacked Comcast's registrar account at Network Solutions, changing the authoritative DNS servers for comcast.net -- rerouting portal visitors to IP addresses in Germany or elsehwere. Where once Comcast's portal sat, users were instead greeted with the following text (see screenshot (http://www.thegng.org/r0/download/1312101~c2d28a1b2a98de10d09ffb1d44527530/not%20comcast.JPG)):KRYOGENICS Defiant and EBK RoXed Comcast
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The problem is impacting user access to the Comcast portal, webmail (obviously) and the official Comcast forums. Though there's no indication that user privacy is jeopardized, you may want to avoid using Comcast webmail until things have been completely cleared up. Comcast tells us they're aware of the problem.
"We are aware of the problem and working to get this resolved as quickly as possible," says one technician. "Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may be causing." According to the tech, Comcast DNS servers have been corrected, but it will take some time for the fix to propagate out to other servers.
"Depending on the TTL for those servers, this could take several hours and in rare cases, longer," he says. Several users tell me that when they called Comcast customer support, they were told that the outage was due to "routine maintenance."
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Starting late yesterday, Comcast users began noticing that Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/) has been hacked. More technically, early indications are that someone hacked Comcast's registrar account at Network Solutions, changing the authoritative DNS servers for comcast.net -- rerouting portal visitors to IP addresses in Germany or elsehwere. Where once Comcast's portal sat, users were instead greeted with the following text (see screenshot (http://www.thegng.org/r0/download/1312101~c2d28a1b2a98de10d09ffb1d44527530/not%20comcast.JPG)):KRYOGENICS Defiant and EBK RoXed Comcast
sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven
The problem is impacting user access to the Comcast portal, webmail (obviously) and the official Comcast forums. Though there's no indication that user privacy is jeopardized, you may want to avoid using Comcast webmail until things have been completely cleared up. Comcast tells us they're aware of the problem.
"We are aware of the problem and working to get this resolved as quickly as possible," says one technician. "Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may be causing." According to the tech, Comcast DNS servers have been corrected, but it will take some time for the fix to propagate out to other servers.
"Depending on the TTL for those servers, this could take several hours and in rare cases, longer," he says. Several users tell me that when they called Comcast customer support, they were told that the outage was due to "routine maintenance."
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Hacked-94826)