By Dancho Danchev
In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, Net Devilz Netherlands starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL - this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June - managed to successfully hack a couple of hundred Dutch web sites as a hacktivist response to the release of the Fitna film, a controversial film released by Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament in March, 2008.
How did they do it? Since all of the sites are parked on a single IP (81.4.97.190) owned by the Geenpunt.nl hosting company, compromising it means having the ability to compromise the content on all the domains hosted there, which is exactly what happened in this case. Read more ...
In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, Net Devilz Netherlands starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL - this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June - managed to successfully hack a couple of hundred Dutch web sites as a hacktivist response to the release of the Fitna film, a controversial film released by Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament in March, 2008.
How did they do it? Since all of the sites are parked on a single IP (81.4.97.190) owned by the Geenpunt.nl hosting company, compromising it means having the ability to compromise the content on all the domains hosted there, which is exactly what happened in this case. Read more ...
Source: ZD Net
H/T: Gramfan
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