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Old 02-02-2005, 05:26 AM  
sonofsam
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put it in a translator and got this...

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of the volkskrand afgeplukt:
Internet crime: million visitors for 1000 dollars
02-02-2005, 10.59
Internet crime: million visitors for 1000 dollars
Of our report donor peter of Ammelrooy
AMSTERDAM - criminal hackers manipulate vital button points of
Internet against payment. The hackers to lead visitors of popular Internet sites such as Google.com and CNN.com gone to other spots, such as pornographic web pages. This abuse is according to Dutch experts ' daily practice '.
In the youngest number of the technology illustrated magazine Bright
the manager tells AskJolene of the sex site.com that he recent by an unknown American was approached with the
question if he ' aimed visitor movement ' buys savage. ' I can decide where users on Internet gone to be sent ', got Toine Verheul to hear.
On distance the anonymous hacker gave staaltje of its are possible. Verheul were asked type in zoekterm at Google. Instead of a list with references he was channelled to a sex page. That happened also then Verheul clicked on references on the Internet
site of CNN.com.
The hackers to use of for a long time well-known, weak spot in the domain nasty servers, large network computers which lead the movement on Internet in correct
job. They act as a type ' tel. call centre ', those ensure that a user who CNN.com also type in on the Internet site of the American satellite sender
arrive. It is however possible these provide movement LEADERS temporarily with
false data. During short time visitors of certain Internet sites ' are then taken
hostage ' to other spots.
The phenomenon is called ' dns spoofing ' or ' dns cache poisoning '
and comes according to Dutch experts, that in Bright are speaking, daily. On which scale the manipulatie takes place, them have not been confessed. It is the first time that there clearly indications are that hackers
beat currency from this weakness of Internet.
The unknown American who AskJolene.com approached, claimed on behalf of a group speak network administrators who manage
the most important button points on Internet. He asked to thousand dollars for re-routing a million visitors.
Domeingijzeling can cause large damage to victims. Previous month disappeared the Newyorkse internet provider Panix for
some days of the radar baffle after unknown field name had ' has been
hijacked '. Because of this became the Internet sites and e mailadressen of
tienduizenden abonnees inaccessible.
Source: Volkskrant 2 February 2005
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