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Reseller account hack caused Google's Malaysia sites to redirect |
October 14, 2013
The administrator for ".my" domain names in Malaysia plans to strengthen the security of partners that resell its services following an attack that affected Google on Friday.The Malaysia Network Information Center (MYNIC) said in a news release that a compromised reseller account resulted in "www.google.my" and "www.google.com.my" being redirected for a few hours to a page controlled by a group of hackers calling themselves Team Madleets.As a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) name registry, MYNIC manages domain names ending in ".my." But it has more than 50 partners that are authorized to sell its services. Changes to DNS records managed by resellers are then distributed globally.MYNIC did not identify the affected reseller. The organization said it would undertake measures to improve reseller account security. No customer or password information was affected by the redirect.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2054480/reseller-account-hack-caused-googles-malaysia-sites-to-redirect.html#tk.rss_all
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