One way that owners of major websites can mitigate the risk of their domains being hijacked like The New York Times’ site was on Tuesday is to apply what is known as a registry lock on the domain, security researchers say.
New York Times site outage caused by attack on domain registrar, company says
The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company’s Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT.
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Twitter, New York Times, others by modifying DNS records
Twitter, The New York Times and other prominent websites were struck by a powerful cyberattack that continued affecting other websites into Tuesday evening, directing visitors to a site purportedly controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).