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A comment on Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility.

Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by signed0 on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @06:26PM (#6286681)
Woah! Has Verisign been hacked?

$ whois twitter.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.

TWITTER.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM

TWITTER.COM

And then:

$ whois verisign.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.

VERISIGN.COM.MIGHT.SUCK.FYRAE.COM

VERISIGN.COM

I get really crazy responses like this for almost every major site I try (cnn.com, yahoo.com, google.com).

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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by arn on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @06:34PM (#6286716)
no.

VERISIGN.COM.MIGHT.SUCK.FYRAE.COM is a subdomain of FYRAE.com

See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204867

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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by dobbsbob on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @06:31PM (#6286699)
I never use CA's so didn't notice this, I only use the twitter app which Moxie Marlinspike and Charlie Miller hardened with pinned certs to avoid all authorities

Also this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4415269/suspicious-result...

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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by InclinedPlane on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @07:45PM (#6287094) 

  whois twitter.com => whois(".*twitter\.com.*")
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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by lampooned on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:15PM (#6287420)
Facebook's whois result is pretty funny.

   $ whois facebook.com

   Whois Server Version 2.0

   Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
   IP Address: 69.41.185.229
   Registrar: TUCOWS DOMAINS INC.
   Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
   Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net
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