ccTLD Libya’s Top Level Domain Name Registry Hacked

[the_poet]

Hackers calling themselves “Electr0n” have defaced the nic.ly home page. nic.ly is registry which administers .ly domain names and is Libya’s TLD country domain extension. The “hackers” put up this on the home page of the nic.ly website:

http://dannosblog.com/2011-08/libya%E2%80%99s-top-level-domain-name-registry-hacked/

As of now, it's still hacked.

 

[Kate]

The Libyan TLD has a very checkered history. Amazing that people are even using it for mundane purposes.

Libya disappears from the Internet
Libya applies secret sharia to block sexy URL shortener
Dr Hosni Tayeb and the case of the disappearing Internet
...

 

[Vito]

I see that no_url_shorteners is forwarded to no_url_shorteners right now and I just went to my Twitter and see that all of my shortened urls that I used no_url_shorteners for ARE still resolving so I really dont see a huge problem right now...

 

[vc]

meh, just defaced..

I doubt they got further than public_html

 

[mis_chiff]

If the actual registry was hacked, could they dump all the registered domains?
and if they did - what would happen?

[silly question probably but I've always wanted to know] :red:

 

[DU]

If the actual registry was hacked, could they dump all the registered domains?
and if they did - what would happen?

[silly question probably but I've always wanted to know] :red:

I'm sure the cloud has adequate backups. I doubt many domains would change ownership

I'd personally like to hack the .com DNS system but I wouldn't ever announce that publicly .. and I certainly wouldn't try it for real. Just a nice mental exercise.

They found a huge gaping whole in the code about 2 years ago so anything is possible

 

[the_poet]

Defaced again.