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by snowy 3919 days ago
In Ireland some one managed to redirect google.ie (The irish google search domain):

http://technology.ie/google-ie-hijacked/

The ccTLD register (The IEDR) had a vulnerability in their management portal that was exploited (I believe it was an SQL injection if I recall correctly).

The attacker changed the DNS servers to their own and then put an A name record pointing google.ie to their own server.

The server just displayed a hijacked by page.

It was probably just some kid. If it was a criminal they would have done some thing far more malicious.

yahoo.ie also got hijacked.

It was an absolute pain, for months after the IEDR's portal was disabled, you had to call them to make any changes to any .ie domain.

1 comments

'their'
Thank you.