A few days ago, a web site defacement group known as “The Peace Crew” has successfully hijacked the DNS records for high profile New Zealand web sites, through what Zone-H claims to be a SQL injection at New Zealand’s based registrar Domainz.net, in order to redirect the visitors to a defaced page featuring the infamous Bill Gates pieing photo, as well as anti-war messages.The mass defacement affected major Microsoft sites in New Zealand including WindowsLive.co.nz, MSN.co.nz, Microsoft.co.nz, Hotmail.co.nz, Live.co.nz next to HSBC.co.nz, Sony.co.nz, Coca-Cola.co.nz, Xerox.co.nz, Fanta.co.nz, F-Secure.co.nz and BitDefender.co.nz.
Here’s Microsoft’s comment:
According to NZHerald:
“MSN have responded by issuing a short statement from MSN business manager Liz Fraser this afternoon. “The cause of this discrepancy has been identified and we are currently working with our Microsoft technology and security teams in the US to resolve the matter as quickly as possible today. “We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused,” the statement said.”
Read the entire article here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3185