Ars Technica, the technology news and information website has become the latest news organisation to fall prey to hackersHacking or Hijacking? Ars Technica confirms the hack attack
The deface page contained a black background color page with white text color reading, Techworm looked at the two Twitter handles mentioned on the defaced page, but surprisingly both handles seems very new and didn’t mention much about the hacking. @nidohax – @metapawd cue the music
Hacking or Hijacking?
From the little bit we know about this hack, it looks like Ars Technica website was redirected to the defaced page by changing the name server records. The same is confirmed by looking at the whois records of the website which was last updated earlier today after the hack attack.
Ars Technica confirms the hack attack
Ars Technica later confirmed the attack in a very terse sentence, saying, they are aware of the issue, and are working on it. followed by a smiley 🙂
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) December 15, 2014 The website has now been restored and is working normally however Ars Technica has not given any explanation as to what went wrong with it for the brief period.
