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<div>Much news in the tech media world this morning about attacks against the DNS entries for the NY Times, Twitter and others. Lead story on Techmeme right now:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/130828/p3#a130828p3">http://www.techmeme.com/130828/p3#a130828p3</a></div>
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<div>with some of the main stories being:</div>
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<div><a href="http://blog.cloudflare.com/details-behind-todays-internet-hacks">http://blog.cloudflare.com/details-behind-todays-internet-hacks</a></div>
<div><a href="http://news.nytco.com/2013/08/28/business/media/hacking-attack-is-suspected-on-times-web-site.html?from=homepage">http://news.nytco.com/2013/08/28/business/media/hacking-attack-is-suspected-on-times-web-site.html?from=homepage</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/28/twitter-newyorktimes-hack-syrian-electronic-army">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/28/twitter-newyorktimes-hack-syrian-electronic-army</a></div>
<div><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/27/syrian-electronic-army-apparently-hacks-dns-records-of-twitter-new-york-times-through-registrar-melboune-it/">http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/27/syrian-electronic-army-apparently-hacks-dns-records-of-twitter-new-york-times-through-registrar-melboune-it/</a></div>
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<div>The CloudFlare and TechCrunch articles both include a statement from Melbourne IT, the registrar for the affected domain names, that indicates there was a compromise at their site.</div>
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<div>Dan</div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Dan York</font></div>
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