Re: How secure are the wire services' feeds?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Yeah, they did:

[snip]

Monday, November 28, 2005

Police arrested a former computer programmer Monday for allegedly publishing a fabricated news article on a fake Yahoo 
Japan news Web site saying China had invaded the Japanese island of Okinawa.

Metropolitan Police arrested Takahiro Yamamoto, 30, on suspicion of violating patent laws, said a police spokesman who 
spoke on condition of anonymity, citing departmental policy.

The office said Yamamoto allegedly accredited the fake article to Kyodo News Agency and published it on an Internet 
site that he had designed to look like Yahoo Japan Corp.'s news site.

[snip]

Same as before, the Yahoo! News link to the article has
expired, sorry. :-/

- ferg


-- Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote:

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
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