Re: How secure are the wire services' feeds?

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

Did they ever figure who did that?

--On December 19, 2005 7:27:11 PM +0000 Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:

> Perhaps.
>
> A similarly-related, semi-humorous news story (although
> not regarding poisoning DNS):
>
> [snip]
>
> Wednesday, October 19, 2005
>
> A fictitious article saying Chinese troops invaded the Japanese island of
> Okinawa was seen on a bogus Japanese-language Yahoo News website at the
> height of tensions between the two Asian neighbours.
>
> The article, which was wrongly credited to Japan's Kyodo news agency,
> reported that the US Department of Defense announced the "invasion" early
> Tuesday.
>
> [snip]
>
> The AFP news article on Yahoo! News:
>
> [snip]
>
> Sorry, the page you requested was not found.
> The story or page you were trying to access may have expired.
>
> [snip]
>
> I hate when they do that. :-/
>
> - ferg
>
> -- Anthony Rodgers <Anthony_Rodgers () dnv org> wrote:
>
> Just wondering what would happen if someone did a DNS cache poisoning
> that redirected media outlets to a fake version of where they get their
> AP/Reuters feeds from and started feed them bogus news........
>
> Would any of them even notice?
>
> Cheers,
>
> CunningPike
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
>
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Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/
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