On Tuesday afternoon, the New York Times' website became inaccessible and was spotty much of Wednesday. How could one of the biggest media companies in the world go down for a day or more?
Turns out the New York Times' website was hit with a domain name system attack, in which hackers target the system that matches a website URL — like nytimes.com — to the servers where that website's content is stored. None of the New York Times' content was affected; people just couldn't find it.
The kicker: Simple security etiquette might have prevented the attack.
The New York Times' DNS records are managed by an Australian-based company called Melbourne IT, a domain registrar similar to the American company GoDaddy. Read more...
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