Hackers Hijack, Redirect IANA and ICANN Web Sites
30 Jun 2008 - 09:01:40

Mike Kent, Fri Jun 27, 4:50 PM ET Hackers calling themselves NetDevilz temporarily hijacked the sites of key organizations that control routing of Internet traffic and redirected them to a taunting page.r rVisitors to the sites for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) were temporarily redirected Thursday morning. The sites affected were , , and , according to researchers at , which monitors attacks.r rA message at the bogus site said, "You think that you control the domains but you don't! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don't you believe us?"r rIANA is responsible for managing the domain-name root system that translates domain names like into IP addresses. ICANN oversees IANA.r rThe sites were redirected to the same IP address used last week in an attack on . Average (Not Rated)class="whatsthis" ( ) Related Searches: See all of the latest BMW models on Yahoo! Autos. Get...

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