Thursday, May 29, 2008

Comcast home page hacked

Bwahhhaaa!

I use OOL here in NY but I have heard endless problems with "Comcrap" mostly their use of throttling uploads and slowing Bittorent traffic on their network to a crawl.
Comcrap customers who tried to access comcast's web portal were met with this.
Cnet is reporting

The hackers apparently changed Comcast's registrar account at Network Solutions, which altered the DNS servers that were used to direct Comcast.net requests. In other words, the hackers essentially redirected traffic destined for the URL Comcast.net. Instead, the traffic went to IP addresses in Germany and elsewhere.
Cardinal rule number one, never mess with a geek and his access to internet porn.
More at broadbandreports.com
*** UPDATE ***
Comcast tech support is currently handling the situation.