Thursday, March 12, 2015

Lenovo.com hijack reportedly pulled off by hack on upstream registrar

Vendors take note. this is what happens when you take advantage or your customers trust.  I have a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg for Lenovo. Normally I would tag this as cybercrime however it is Lenovo who committed the real crime. Again, they make cheap crappy computers, stick with Dell, HP or Toshiba.

From ars technica:

Lenovo.com hijack reportedly pulled off by hack on upstream registrar

Wednesday's hijacking of the Lenovo.com domain name and interception of the company's e-mail was pulled off by first hacking Web Commerce Communications, the registrar that procured the Lenovo address, security journalist Brian Krebs reported.

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