- LinkedIn Downed As ‘DNS Error’ Strikes - http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/linkedin-dns-problems-take-down-site-119627
In the process of resolving a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) incident on Wednesday night, the websites of a small number of Network Solutions customers were inadvertently affected for up to several hours. We are proactively working with these customers and have resolved most issues, none of which involved malicious activity. No confidential data was compromised, including passwords, credit card information, or cookies. If you are a Network Solutions customer and are experiencing problems with your website, please call us at (866) 391-4357 so we can help to quickly resolve the issue. Thank you for your patience and support as we work to fully resolve this situation.
From http://www.confluence-networks.com/ :
Confluence Networks is a Colocation & Network service provider having tie-ups with data centers across various geographical regions. We don't host any services ourselves. Starting few hours ago, we received reports about some sites (including linkedin.com) pointing to IPs allotted to our ranges. We are in touch with the affected parties & our customer to identify the root cause of this event.
Note that it has already been verified that this issue was caused due to a human error and there was NO security related issue caused by the same. More details will be provided shortly.
- Internet Storm Center thread - https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Linkedin+DNS+Hijack/16037#comment
- North American Network Operators' Group mailing list thread - http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-June/059193.html
- DNS Operations mailing list thread - https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2013-June/010346.html
- Reddit thread - http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1gpl3p/linkedin_dns_has_been_hijacked_pointing_at_rogue/
- Hacker News thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5909747
- DNS Made Easy offers an outside explanation - http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/blog/dns-redirection-puts-linkedin-users-at-risk/
- linkedin.com
- weather.com
- cbs.com (rumored)
- Fidelity (rumored)
- Yelp (rumored)
- USPS (rumored)
- craigslist (rumored)
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