Yahoo...

[wsuffa]

It appears that Yahoo has been hacked. Went to check a group there tonight and couldn't get the IP address. WHOIS returns the following:

whois -h whois.crsnic.net yahoo.com ...

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.


YAHOO.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
YAHOO.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
YAHOO.COM.VIRGINCHASSIS.COM
YAHOO.COM.UNIQUELYUJEWELS.COM
YAHOO.COM.TWIXTEARS.COM
YAHOO.COM.TW
YAHOO.COM.SG
YAHOO.COM.OPTIONSCORNER.COM
YAHOO.COM.MX
YAHOO.COM.JOSEJO.COM
YAHOO.COM.JENNINGSASSOCIATES.NET
YAHOO.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
YAHOO.COM.ELPOV.COM
YAHOO.COM.DALLARIVA.COM
YAHOO.COM.BR
YAHOO.COM.BGPETERSON.COM
YAHOO.COM.AU
YAHOO.COM

Oops....

 

[gismo]

It appears that Yahoo has been hacked. Went to check a group there tonight and couldn't get the IP address. WHOIS returns the following:
Oops....

Either they fixed it already or the hack is elsewhere (DNS server?) as I can access the site (including some groups) just fine. No mention of a hack on the home page either.

 

[mikea]

Anybody can add "yahoo.com" as a subdomain, which is what happened there. I dunno what that gets you except I'll bet that it takes advantage of another bug in *cough* some browsers helpfully trying to find the domain by doing a search for likely matches. Or they get people making typos.

You would have to be in one of those domains where it would have search path like "Check .com , then .net, then .br etc." IE and firefox will check .com and .net if you don't supply that. That is slightly dangerous, too.

 

[wsuffa]

Dunno. I can get in now. Funny that it was only Yahoo I had trouble with....

 

[JohnR]

Yahoo mail Beta was screwed up all day yesterday. It's fine now.