Hacker points Syrian telecom website to AT&T, T-Mobile

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://news.techworld.com/security/3466107/hacker-points-syrian-telecom-website-to-att-t-mobile/

By Jeremy Kirk
Techworld.com
29 August 2013

The website of a Syrian telecommunications provider redirected to AT&T's 
website and then T-Mobile's on Wednesday, an apparent prank by a hacker 
who has been probing the country's Internet infrastructure for several 
days.

The hacker apparently found a way to modify the authoritative DNS (Domain 
Name System) record for the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE), 
said Doug Madory, senior analyst with Renesys, a company that monitors 
global Internet activity.

The style of hack is similar to one that affected The New York Times, 
Twitter, Sharethis and others on Tuesday when certain domain names they 
controlled were pointed to an IP address controlled by the Syrian 
Electronic Army (SEA), a group of pro-Syrian government cyberattackers.

DNS is a distributed database that translates domain names, such as 
twitter.com, into an IP address that can be called up in a browser.

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