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by unreal37 4675 days ago
Whoa. Twitter, NYTimes, HuffPo... all had their DNS records hacked? This seems huge.
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Twitter is up. I still can't get NYT - down for over a day? wow
How difficult of a thing is this to pull off?
If you can compromise a shared registrar, pretty trivial.
Well, the "attacking multiple sites at once" is trivial. The "compromising a major registry" is at least supposed to be kinda hard.
You'd have to have the ability to change DNS records for their domains. If you can point "whatever.com" to a NS that you control, it's game over until they take it back.