Hackers assault the Comcast website
Written by IT News on 7:52 PMEnlarges the attached images to see the message from the hackers.
Comcast, one of the largest Internet service provider in the United States, saw its website hacked last night with a strange message on the screen for all visitors: "KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven '. What is interesting is that it looks like hackers managed to break into servers and changing the DNS, as they were in fact pointing to a non-Comcast address of a free hosting service. Although some people are concerned about the security of their email addresses, most users, especially fans of BitTorrent, were satisfied with the news.
Celebration of communications relating to the Comcast attack can be seen worldwide as consumers, published in the report of lots of Internet forums and discussions. At that time there was not much information available, since Comcast representatives have not made a formal statement, but most customers who contact the company were advised to use the beta version of the site and avoid loading website hacked.
All we actually received a forum message posted by an employee of Comcast dslreports.com who said that "We are aware of the problem and working to get this resolved as quickly as possible. This will affect Comcast.net webmail . For Comcast. Net Help Forums are currently free and can be obtained by going »forums.comcast.net /. Sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may cause." After several hours of stay Comcast services are restored so that everything should be fine now.
Preparing for back to happy customers, most of them are satisfied with the news Comcast, because it is often described as an Internet service provider, which throttles BitTorrent traffic, providing a very slow speed for download. Although the company immediately denied the charges, the latest statistics Comcast has proven to be a really changed BitTorrent downloads of several days.
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