Hacked Sun site greatly exaggerates Murdoch's death Hackers breached the security of Rupert Murdoch's Sun website and briefly redirected many visitors to a hoax article falsely claiming the tabloid media tycoon had been found dead in his garden. The hack caused many people visiting thesun.co.uk to instead reach www.new-times.co.uk/sun/, which contained a story headlined "Media …
I posted my reply to AC 23:46 @ 01:22 BST and it was published - that makes me wonder: who are the hobbits that man/woman/creature the ElReg comments desk after working hours? Spooky as fuck.
Are they the ones that come round and inject me with things after I've nodded-off? Are they the gremlins that put the noodles into my server boxes that I find sometimes? Is this all a Friday-night cider dream and tomorrow will be bright, sunny, warm and I'll wake up next to Col. Samantha Carter (more than likely it would be Rodney).
May I suggest just providing free gifts with each paper, in the form of fizzy drinks or self-tan samples which contain drugs that cause sterility.
Your could probably write the known effects on the packaging, just to ensure you don't catch anyone with a functioning brain by mistake.
In ~20 years the country would be significantly smarter.
They're certainly living up to their name... "Lulz" indeed.
On a serious note, working as I do in the security field, I find their antics to be both hilarious and also rewarding. Now I just have to say "Do you want us to be the next Sony / CIA / The Sun..?" to justify getting budget for anything remotely security-related, whereas in the past it was almost impossible to convince the non-techies who run my company to invest in security.
Long may this continue!
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"these morons have just destroyed a ton of potential evidence against Murdoch and his empire: anything incriminating in the email servers can just be blamed on these hackers."
Oh come on!
(1) You seriously think NI have not been purging their own servers, etc, since this all started to happen a few years ago?
(2) If they had not purged so far, what about off-site backups?
Thanks for telling me what my job doesn't entail... you clearly know more than me about what I do (or don't do) as a career.
The point I was making, which you seem to have either missed or chosen to ignore, is that high profile cases such as this work in my favour by making it easier for me to get budgets which were previously allocated to other projects.
When talking in a work-related context - which hopefully you had noticed I was doing - I couldn't care less about the falling of Murdoch's empire, as it has no real relevance on my day-to-day work. But I have been using his company's misfortune as a real life example of what can happen to other high-profile companies... I would be stupid not to.
As you appear to know so much about my career, you're already aware that I work for a company that is as prevalent within British society as News Corp is. I don't claim to know whether any of my colleagues have done anything as morally dubious as Murdoch's employees - I sincerely hope not, but I have no way of knowing that.
Can't see this as positive, at all.
No one else's business what newspaper or news/sport/entertainment/comic I choose to look at. A few dozen people imposing their will on a few million, very unpleasant.
Don't like the state or little groups (not so keen on big groups either) restricting access to media and communication.
Derr. So you think NI is somehow hypnotising millions of NI newspaper purchasers to CHOOSE to spend their money and DECIDE to buy a NI paper, then read from it? Or these Sky customers are hypnotised to CHOOSE to buy a Sky box and then choose to subscribe to channels.
I CHOSE never to buy, or even read, the NOTW. I CHOOSE to have a Sky box. At least that way, I can watch US cable TV, which is not censored by leftist so-called impartialtity laws.
Now the real broadcaster imposed without choice on its viewers/listeners/readers is the BBC.
Forceably paid for out of citizen's wages, who have little say on the bias, or on what the large amount of money raised is spent.
The BBC is the real scandal, not NI.
It's bought for pictures by people that will have forgotten what's on the front page by the time they reach the sports section. Having said that, I heard from people in the betting business that the sports section is worth suffering the rest of the paper, but that was a few years ago (no, I don't bet - I just come across many interesting people).
At this point the DNS servers ns0 and ns1.newsint.co.uk are down and domains including times.co.uk, sunday-times.co.uk, newsinternational.co.uk, thesun.co.uk, and rupertmurdoch.co.uk do not resolve. Even when they do, the servers are just responding with errors.
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I don't know if I'd be all that convinced that incriminating emails on a mail server had been planted by someone hacking a CMS (or whatever got hacked) probably located on different servers in a different datacentre, possibly on a different continent.
Mind you, I'm no judge. Who knows what they'll believe...
...a multinational organisation like News Corp doesn't have off-site backups and archiving then the whole lot of them should be confined to a child-safe playroom for their own protection, because they are surely too retarded to be trusted around open power sockets, sharp edges and stairs, and small objects they may choke to death on.
Putting my lame attempts at claiming the News Corp executives are a bunch of retarded babies aside, I can guarantee that they do have a clean copy of all emails, because they'd be royally screwed if they didn't. They are legally required by multiple laws, regulations and acts in both the UK and US (given News Corp spans both jurisdictions) to preserve such information and present this information to authorities or the courts when ordered to do so by a court order.
The argument "Lulzsec ate my homework" isn't going to prevent serious repercussions if they haven't complied with such data retention laws.
I had a look when www.thesun.co.uk was redirecting to the lulzsec twitter feed to see how it was doing it.
The homepage was loading another page into an iframe from here :
http://extras.thesun.co.uk/sol/breakingnewspage.html
This page is currently unavailable, but i dumped the source here: http://pastebin.com/Em4w7Cxw
The twitter redirect was done with javascript, and it looks like access to The Sun's CMS would have been needed to insert this script
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As El Reg reported in 2010, most IT infrastructure & services are now outsourced to HCL in India, I suspect that Lulz would have found it too much of a challenge...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/09/news_int_email/
- maybe their email servers crashed due to excessive deletion from the backups ;)
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