[registrars] Re: ISOC Forum (Vol. 4, No. 4)
At 09:58 PM 4/21/98, Wendy Rickard Bollentin wrote: For those of you who may have forgotten (or never knew), here is the story of the hi jacking of the InteraNIC web site in 1997. Question: Would DNSSEC have prevented this hi jacking? Regards, BobC * HACKER PLEADS GUILTY Eugene Kashpureff, the domain name system hacker who successfully rerouted millions of Web users last year, pleaded guilty to federal charges of computer fraud. As part of the plea, Kashpureff admitted causing damages of only $15,000, considerably less than the "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in damages cited in original charges, one of his attorneys said. The charges stemmed from Kashpureff's actions last summer, when he rerouted all Web traffic headed for Network Solutions' InterNIC page to his own AlterNIC page in protest over InterNIC's claim of ownership of .com, org, and .net. (Net Insider, 20 March 1998) |