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23-July-07, 09:52 PM
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| News Hound  |  Slashdot // TimeWarner DNS Hijacking Exstatica writes "It looks like TimeWarner is taking vigilante action on the botnet problem. They've hijacked DNS for a few IRC servers, the latest being irc.mzima.net and irc.nac.net — both part of EFNet. (irc.vel.net was hijacked earlier but has been restored.) Using ns1.sd.cox.net, the lookup returns an IP for what looks to be a script that forces the user into a channel and issues a set of commands to clean the drones. There have been different reports of other IRC networks being hijacked and other DNS servers involved. Is this the right way to handle the botnet problem? Is hijacking DNS legal?" Botnets are starting to move off of IRC for command and control, anyway. Update: 07/24 00:01 GMT by KD : Updated and added more links; thanks to Drew Matthews at vel.net. Read more of this story at Slashdot. More... | |
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