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« on: September 10, 2012, 03:55:50 PM »

Anonymous hacks one of the biggest webfarms in the world. Godaddy.com hosting millions of websites.

Millions of websites.. ALL DOWN!!!

ALL DOWN...

OMG!!

Anonymous...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57509744-501465/godaddy-goes-down-anonymous-claims-responsibility/
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« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2012, 03:56:18 PM »

couple of hours later.. still not up !!!!

What a disaster !! all email down too of millions of domains.
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« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2012, 07:16:06 PM »

It was a mess, I got many customer lost connection with their remote servers, the dns servers got affected.
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« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2012, 07:10:04 AM »

I'm interested in hearing what the post-mortem will be. I think the best tweet I saw yesterday was "A leaf fell from a tree, Anonymous took credit for it". Or something like that.
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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2012, 07:16:26 AM »

A misconfiguration ?

They will never admit to that right ?

If they admit they misconfigured something everybody could sue them for that mistake right ?

It's easier to say: we got hacked we are figuring things out why, and never answering to it.
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« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2012, 08:33:59 AM »

I've heard (unsubstantiated) reports that the issue can be traced back to an outage/attack within GoDaddy's DNS infrastructure. Assuming that's the case (I'm not a GoDaddy customer or have any inside knowledge) I came across this article today that indicates that GoDaddy's DNS infrastructure isn't as resilient as it could be.

Whether this has any impact on the outage or not, it is an indication that weaknesses were/are present within the hosting infrastructure for GoDaddy. (although recent comments on the article suggest that it may not be as simple as initial research suggests, pinch of salt required.....)
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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2012, 12:28:03 PM »

GoDaddy wouldn't even let me interview for a pentesting position because i didn't have enough experience, so is it ok that I take a little pleasure in this?
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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2012, 12:45:35 PM »

GoDaddy wouldn't even let me interview for a pentesting position because i didn't have enough experience, so is it ok that I take a little pleasure in this?

Hahahaha

Yes, that is really funny.

THey said the fault was some corrupted routing tables.

I call that BS. I don't buy it. But hey, what else can they say ?
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« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2012, 04:31:29 PM »

If they admit hacking, they could be liable for $$$$$$$$$$$$$

If they admit they screwed something up, $$$$$$$$$$$

Gonna have to blame server weevils, or solar flares, or USERS.

It was our fault.  Embarrassed



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« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2012, 04:52:12 PM »

This is just a filthy political game, if you believe that "Anonymous" exists, you really need to wake up!  Smiley
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« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2012, 03:27:50 AM »

I call that BS. I don't buy it. But hey, what else can they say ?

Quote from: SomeoneSmarterThanMe
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained to stupidity/incompetence.

I've seen more production systems experience downtime because something broke/failed or someone messed up than I have caused by malicious actions of a third party.
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« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2012, 03:59:13 AM »

If they admit hacking, they could be liable for $$$$$$$$$$$$$

If they admit they screwed something up, $$$$$$$$$$$

I came across this article which would suggest this wouldn't be the case:

http://blog.internetcases.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-limitation-liability-clause-terms-of-service/

Obviously there is the potential to lose some customers over this, but I wouldn't expect a mass exodus.
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« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2012, 04:22:26 AM »

It could just be PR spin, but GoDaddy CEO stating that this was an internal failure, not the result of a malicious third party.

Personally I'm inclined to accept this as truth, if you wanted to spin your way out a problem 'them pesky hackers did it' probably carries more acceptance from the masses than 'we screwed up'.

Ref: GoDaddy Release
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