Website review: ISPs Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hij...
booches discovered this in Internet
•10 reviews since Apr 19, 2008
internet, security, hacking
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Kaempfer05 rated 3 months ago- This is what happens when you let the suits bully the geeks. Ten bucks gets you five that there were techs at each of these companies warning against such a bad idea.
- renes rated 3 months ago
- Another Internet security hole. This one involves DNS.
- agentsolutions rated 3 months ago
- I never would have considered that. Sure makes you think.
- alisdee rated 3 months ago
- Not only are ads annoying, but now apparently they're a backdoor to phishing. Wonderful.
- metaeducation rated 3 months ago
- Insecure or not (which it obviously was), this is outrageous practice on the part of the ISPs. God damn. Goverments and corporations seem to be willing to do anything unethical they can get away with, and the population seems so numb as to let them. But way to go for bringing some press down on this, Dan.
- mtgmanfl rated 3 months ago
- wow, that's kinda scary
- anneliese rated 3 months ago
- Not good in so many ways...
- spostareduro rated 3 months ago
- The news of the massive security breach by compromising net nuetrality for profit comes just two days after the Federal Communication Commission held a hand-wringing public forum at Stanford University over whether it should punish Comcast for its violation of standard internet practices. The broadband provider was caught sending fake packets to its users in order to reduce the bandwidth consumed by peer-to-peer applications.
- oniTony rated 3 months ago
- More non-neutral ISP nonsense. Earthlink (and apparently a part of Comcast) have decided to cash in on typo traffic of their own users. Instead of letting the client browser decide what to do about missing domains, the ISP(s) have intercepted "Non-Existent Domain" responses from DNS (which includes subdomains!) and injected their own ads server's address instead.
Though if that wasn't bad enough, the placeholder server itself turned out to be a pretty bad security hole.
"The entire security of the internet is now dependent on some random-ass server run by some British company,"
So as a proof-of-concept Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher, has Rick-Rolled vulnerable Facebook users. - More non-neutral ISP nonsense. Earthlink (and apparently a part of Comcast) have decided to cash in on typo traffic of their own users. Instead of letting the client browser decide what to do about missing domains, the ISP(s) have intercepted "Non-Existent Domain" responses from DNS (which includes subdomains!) and injected their own ads server's address instead.
