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Amazon DNS service server hijacked for $152,000 Ether theft

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Hackers made off with about $152,000 worth of Ether on Tuesday in an attack that exploited weaknesses in the internet’s infrastructure to steal users’ cryptowallet keys. The hackers did so by exploiting a weakness in DNS servers serving MyEtherWallet, a cryptocurrency exchange. DNS is a service that connects domain names like myetherwallet.com to whatever IP address it’s hosted on. “This is not due to a lack of security on the [MyEtherWallet] platform. It is due to hackers finding vulnerabilities in public facing DNS servers,” the company wrote in a Reddit post. Hackers hijacked the DNS servers around noon UTC, the company said, and redirected user traffic to a replica of myetherwallet.com hosted on a Russian server. The actual exploit was through the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), explains security researcher Kevin Beaumont. BGP is the system that actually directs traffic to a website. MyEtherWallet noted in the Reddit post that, because users were rerouted to a phishing […]

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Becoming Your Own ISP, Just for Fun

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When moving into a new house, it’s important to arrange for the connection of basic utilities. Electricity, water, and gas are simple enough, and then it’s generally fairly easy to set up a connection to an ISP for your internet connection. A router plugs into a phone line, or maybe a fiber connection and lovely packets start flowing out of the wall. But if you’re connected to the internet through an ISP, how is the ISP connected? [Kenneth] answers this in the form of an amusing tale.

It was during the purchase of data centre rack space that [Kenneth]’s challenge …read more

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