Pakistan’s web users were left high and dry over the weekend after nearly 300 high profile sites including Google.com.pk, Microsoft.pk, Apple.pk and Yahoo.pk were hacked and defaced by what appears to be a mixture of Pakistani and Turkish attackers. Many local versions of big name sites including Apple, Microsoft and PayPal …

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Monday 26th November 2012 06:26 GMT Anonymous Coward

The sites weren't hacked, the DNS-server holding the records for these domains was hacked.

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1. Monday 26th November 2012 06:32 GMT stu_ekins
  
  Thank you. That answers the question I was about to ask.
  
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  1. Monday 26th November 2012 07:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    @stu
    
    No thanks, votes will do ;-)
    
    Seriously; if that helped you, why not press the green arrow as a way of saying 'thanks' in El Reg style?
    
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Monday 26th November 2012 07:26 GMT ratfox

Yeah, I was going to ask too…

Being able to hack Google, Apple, Yahoo and Microsoft web sites at the same time would rather stretch credibility.

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Monday 26th November 2012 09:55 GMT Redundent Asset

So really it should have the title

Root DNS server exploited Google, Apple, and Microsoft sites affected in Pakistan

Less sensational but more truthful

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1. Monday 26th November 2012 13:15 GMT C Lart
  
  or more accurately... cc-TLD DNS server exploited Google, Apple, and Microsoft sites affected in Pakistan
  
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Monday 26th November 2012 20:23 GMT Bucky 2

The rhyme

Is this equally bizarre in the original Turkish, or is this an automated-translation artifact?

If it's still nonsensical in the original language, I'm going to have to conclude that this is an attack from a self-aware AI that has yet to grasp the syntax of human language. There can be no other explanation.

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1. Wednesday 28th November 2012 12:36 GMT Tom 13
  
  Re: The rhyme
  
  3v3ry0n3 Kn0wz3 3l1t3 H4ck0rz c@nt sp1ll!
  
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