Re: [Full-disclosure] ICANN and IANA’s domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group

[Eren Türkay <turkay.eren () gmail com>]

On 27 Jun 2008 Fri 01:49:00 Dancho Danchev wrote:
> Hello,

Hi

> The official domains of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned
> Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
> were hijacked earlier today, by the NetDevilz Turkish hacking group
> which also hijacked Photobucket's domain on the 18th of June.
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1356

Then, how did they do it? There is no comment on how it was done and ZDNet 
blog says that attackers refused to answer zone-h's questions.

Any suggestions? I think that there is no new way of hijacking domain names. 
There should be something like social engineering and unfortunately, there is 
no patch for human stupidity.

> Regards

Regards,
Eren

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