Hundreds of Websites Defaced after Network Solutions Breach

Help Net Security reports a major US hosting provider and domain registrar has been breached leading to the defacement of hundreds of customer websites.  One of the more disturbing features of this breach was the fact that two simple words accompanied the defacement:  Those two words?  "Allahu Akba".



Here's a snippet from HNS:



Networks Solutions breached, hundreds of sites defaced



Network Solutions, the well-known U.S. hosting provider and domain registrar that manages over 6.6 million domain names, confirmed on Tuesday that their servers have been breached and that a few hundred of their customer's web sites have been defaced by unknown attackers who have replaced the home pages with the picture depicted on the left. 



Brian Krebs reports that the writing supposedly contains anti-Israeli sentiments and attributes the hacking to one "CWkomando". According to the Minnesota’s 8th District chapter of the Republican Party - whose web page has also been hit - the writing contains words "For Palestine" and "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic).



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