“The Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous claims to have hacked into the DNS servers of Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and several other large organizations over the past few days,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET.
“Posting the news and records of its exploits on Pastebin, the group is taking credit for launching ‘DNS Cache Snoop Poisoning’ attacks against its victims,” Whitney reports. “In the record of its DNS attack against Symantec, Anonymous Sri Lanka boasts that it breached the ‘world’s second-largest software (antivirus) leader/giant’ and says that it captured almost the entire DNS pool, including the company’s corporate customers, production servers, and testbeds.”
Whitney reports, “The group touted the same DNS Cache Snoop Poisoning attacks against Facebook, Skype, Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, and Novell.”
Read more in the full article here.
Funny, I was able to access Apple with no issues. Even made a few purchases as well. They did a great hack’n job! Hahahahahaa
But you are not getting your products, they are….
Just kidding.
Hahaha. That’s why my iPad 3 has not shown up yet!!! Bastages!
This is fast turning into the world’s worst willy-waving contest…
Not even. A DNS server only converts numerical IP strings to domain names and vice versa. It’s a reverse lookup service for directing email traffic and web browsing. Hacking into one might win you brownie points but there is usually a backup.
Ballmer’s left nut:
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 – 11:59 pm
So I take it that Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple to take up the reins of running things back in Syria as its next dictator after Assad.
Now that Seal Team Six took out Osoma, how about Obama sending the Seal Team to put a few rounds in some of the foreheads of those cyber terrorists?
It would work for me.
“The group tried to justify its actions in some of its comments. Lashing out at Facebook, Anonymous Sri Lanka said…”
Wow! You petulant little shits! If you want to lash out at somebody, how about hacking and destroying the world’s child pornography sites, or the information networks used to commit terrorism, or support massive international crime.
Exactly.
I’m amazed by how smart and clever computers engineers are. What they did to Sony and others is mind blowing to me. It would be cool if some of these groups would do much needed good.
I thought Facebook was one of the world’s child pornography sites, using 18 as the age of consent, end of childhood.
Those Anonymous weenies really really need to get out of their parents basements and laid. I say all instead of alerting the legal authorities, Apple and the other victims should alert some local pimps and send some hookers to these guys houses STAT!!!
Please, NO! NO! NO! The last thing we need are these people reproducing!
Congratulations, Anonymous, nobody cares. Thank you for exposing yourselves to corporations with the resources to hunt you down so that you can be arrested like the terrorists you are.
Symantec’s reply: “We weren’t hacked—we set up all of our servers as honey pots!”
Probably easier for Symantec to sell anti-virus software if they can point out how many PCs are infected… and failing to mention how many are “honey pots” they set up.
They have branches?
Launch more drones.
Just hack in and fill all their Muslim sites with porn…unless they already are.
Once captured and jailed “anonymous” will be revealed as anagram for “O no! My anus!”
I have more respect for roaches and bottom feeders.