MIT website hacked by Lulzsec

Re:MIT website hacked by Lulzsec by vinhboy on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:44PM (#5098396)

I would love to hear how this could have happened. Social engineering at the DNS provider? Unpatched server? If someone knows, please do tell. I love hearing about how people pull off these things. Maybe even an inside job? a lot of people are sympathetic to the cause, maybe one of those people just left the window open or something?

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Re:MIT website hacked by Lulzsec by ewillbefull on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:52PM (#5098451)

Their registrar was probably vulnerable (or socialed), because the nameservers were changed. This is not uncommon.

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Re:MIT website hacked by Lulzsec by danielweber on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:48PM (#5098424)

Almost all of MIT's network administration happens within MIT, so you can't hack it by social engineering an outsider.

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Re:MIT website hacked by Lulzsec by lawnchair_larry on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:52PM (#5098455)

You can if the target is the registrar, which this was.

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Re:MIT website hacked by Lulzsec by jad73994 on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @07:17PM (#5100569)

I doubt it was a social of educause (the edu registrar); more likely some credentials specific to MIT were compromised.

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