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Comcast.net not Hacked, DNS Records Hijacked

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2008-05-30 07:58:46 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Comcast.net , and consequently, redirect traffic to third-party servers, which in this incident only served a defaced-looking like page, and denied email services to Comcast's millions of email users for a period of three hours The message they appear to have left at the first place, is actually hosted on third-party servers and reads ...
 
Tags: comcast, net, access comcast, network solutions account, network solutions, net domain address, network solutions comments, domain, domain registrations
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more...

2007-11-07 21:52:53 by HASH0x89e6354 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #70, a 51-minute podcast from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions Download the show here (MP3, 21MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically You may also listen to this...
 
Tags: voip security, voip security vulnerabilities, voip security news, voip, voip security podcast, consumer voip, vulnerabilities, sans voip security, sans
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more...

2007-11-07 22:52:27 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #70, a 51-minute podcast from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions Download the show here (MP3, 21MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically You may also listen to this...
 
Tags: voip security, voip security vulnerabilities, voip security news, voip, voip security podcast, consumer voip, vulnerabilities, sans voip security, sans
 
 
 
 
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Comcast.net Hijacked, Redirected

2008-05-29 22:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Cable giant Comcast was the victim of a DNS hijacking beginning late Wednesday and into early Thursday. The hacker group Kryogeniks claimed responsibility for the stunt, which blocked Comcast customers from accessing their webmail service. Customers were redirected to a page in which the hijackers boasted of the ploy
 
Tags: cable giant comcast, comcast customers, customers, webmail service, stunt, dns, hijackers, page, responsibility
 
 
 
 
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Comcast Hijackers Say They Warned the Company First

2008-05-29 20:45:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
In an interview with Wired.com, the DNS hijackers who took over ownership of Comcast.net say they told the company about the security hole that made the attack possible. When Comcast allegedly hung up on them, they got mad
 
Tags: comcast, comcast allegedly hung, dns hijackers, company, security hole, attack, net, mad, interview
 
 
 
 
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Domain name record altered to hack Comcast.net

2008-05-29 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Hackers knocked Comcast.net offline late Wednesday night, preventing customers from getting to their Comcast Web mail and account records on the company's Internet portal
 
Tags: comcast, comcast web mail, net offline, internet portal, wednesday night, account records, customers, company, hackers
 
 
 
 
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Comcast cap may mean less snooping on your browsing

2008-09-30 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3edf8 in Network World on Security
 
Comcast's move to limit its broadband customers' throughput to 250GB per month starting in October might anger those who want unlimited access, but it's actually good for privacy. Because the cap applies to all traffic equally, it doesn't require that Comcast snoop for particular types of application data. Contrast that with its previous (and...
 
Tags: broadband customers, comcast, customers, limit customers, limit, comcast snoop, peer-to-peer traffic, traffic, cap applies
 
 
 
 
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Comcast Blocks Web Browsing

2008-04-08 04:12:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A group of researchers have found that Comcast has rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, in their area, which is interfering with a wide range of applications, including web browsers and email clients
 
Tags: wide range, email clients, comcast, web browsers, applications, researchers, method
 
 
 
 
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Comcast Is Hiring an Internet Snoop for the Feds

2008-05-30 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Wanna tap e-mail, voice and Web traffic for the government? Here's your chance. Comcast, the country's second-largest Internet provider, is looking for an engineer to handle "reconnaissance" and "analysis" of "subscriber intelligence" for the company's "National Security Operations
 
Tags: national security operations, wanna tap e-mail, web traffic, subscriber intelligence, internet provider, comcast, country, government, reconnaissance