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Tim S · 31st May 2008, 06:45

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05...y-dns-attack/1

A cracker group calling itself Kryogeniks has taken responsibility for an attack on the DNS records of US cable giant Comcast, resulting in the downing of its main website on Wednesday.

Veles · 31st May 2008, 07:00

Shame they just did a 'I wuz ere' could have been quite funny to do a spoof site taking the piss out of their throttling, etc.

salesman · 31st May 2008, 09:34

I'm an American but i have charter cable not comcast, I don't go to charters web page even still.

woodshop · 31st May 2008, 09:43

Comcast here.. first i've heard of it.. never ever even accessed via webmail once.. heck.. i've never even been to the site lol. got to love pop service.

ChromeX · 31st May 2008, 13:03

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Originally Posted by salesman

I'm an American but i have charter cable not comcast, I don't go to charters web page even still.

ey, I cant remember the last time I was on orange's webpage (my isp)

ChurchofVirus · 31st May 2008, 19:53

I have Comcast, I never once have went to their site. Most people who would use Comcast mail are generally the less than savvy pc users. Pretty wild stuff though. MSN and Hotmail myself.

pendragon · 1st Jun 2008, 04:22

i have Comcast as well.. I don't use their webmail, though a coworker of mine uses it ... he was a little concerned at first and sent me out an email about it.. .glad they didn't actually hack their mail servers.

Fozzy · 2nd Jun 2008, 04:54

I have comcast. I'm glad it wasn't harmful to any of the customers but it would have been better if they did something really funny. It would be great if somebody hacked wow and put their guild name in the corner of every user's screen hahaha

devdevil85 · 2nd Jun 2008, 15:20

that's Comcastic!!

TGImages · 2nd Jun 2008, 15:34

Comcast is strictly a connection for me. Mail is hosted elsewhere and I don't need/use their site. Didn't even know about this until reading it here.

Neogumbercules · 2nd Jun 2008, 22:39

Cox cable here. I don't use any of the web features they provide, and I can't really remember the last time I went to their site, either

DannyDirect · 18th Jun 2008, 15:29

What the hell, I was reading this article, fell as leep a little bit, thought I went to work, but no, i just dream it, thanks alot, now I still have to go to work.

Gareth Halfacree · 18th Jun 2008, 15:52

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Originally Posted by DannyDirect

What the hell, I was reading this article, fell as leep a little bit, thought I went to work, but no, i just dream it, thanks alot, now I still have to go to work.

Wow. My writing is that scintillating, huh?

juantete · 12th Feb 2009, 06:01

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Originally Posted by DannyDirect

What the hell, I was reading this article, fell as leep a little bit, thought I went to work, but no, i just dream it, thanks alot, now I still have to go to work.

What the hell Danny, seems that you worked twice then... next time an article is boring to you, dream you are dreaming... :-)

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31st May 2008, 09:34	#3
salesman Multimodder Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 165	I'm an American but i have charter cable not comcast, I don't go to charters web page even still.

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woodshop UnSeenly Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: The Depths Of Hades Posts: 1,381	Comcast here.. first i've heard of it.. never ever even accessed via webmail once.. heck.. i've never even been to the site lol. got to love pop service.

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devdevil85 Hypermodder Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: US of A Posts: 884	that's Comcastic!!

2nd Jun 2008, 15:34	#10
TGImages Grandpa Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Illinois, US Posts: 160	Comcast is strictly a connection for me. Mail is hosted elsewhere and I don't need/use their site. Didn't even know about this until reading it here.

18th Jun 2008, 15:29	#12
DannyDirect Banned Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 21	What the hell, I was reading this article, fell as leep a little bit, thought I went to work, but no, i just dream it, thanks alot, now I still have to go to work.