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Mumbai: Indian Software giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) became the first private company to be a target of hackers in India when the company's website was hacked and domain name was put up for sale. Usually, government website like telecom regulator's trai.gov.in and other such websites have been targeted by hackers.
The company's official website www.tcs.com displayed the message 'this domain name is for sale' for nearly three hours, before the portal was restored by around 7 am, according to Economic Times
When contacted by ET, a TCS spokesman said the attacks happened at the domain name registrar's end, which is Network Solutions in this case. Network Solutions is one of the top five domain name registrars on internet, managing almost 6.4 million domains. "The TCS website www.tcs.com was disrupted. Subsequently, it has been restored and is functioning fine. None of the servers were compromised. Initial investigation reveals a DNS redirection at the domain name registrar's end. Further investigations are on," said a TCS spokesperson.
A denial of service attack makes a website or a computer unavailable for target users, traditionally aimed at high-profile banks, credit card companies, government portals and other corporates. By hacking a domain name, hackers are able to redirect users of the website to a completely unrelated IP address, primarily for the purpose of phishing. To put it in simple words, hackers direct more traffic to the website than it could handle. Social Networking site like Twitter and media website like New York Times have already been a target of such attacks.
The company's official website www.tcs.com displayed the message 'this domain name is for sale' for nearly three hours, before the portal was restored by around 7 am, according to Economic Times
When contacted by ET, a TCS spokesman said the attacks happened at the domain name registrar's end, which is Network Solutions in this case. Network Solutions is one of the top five domain name registrars on internet, managing almost 6.4 million domains. "The TCS website www.tcs.com was disrupted. Subsequently, it has been restored and is functioning fine. None of the servers were compromised. Initial investigation reveals a DNS redirection at the domain name registrar's end. Further investigations are on," said a TCS spokesperson.
A denial of service attack makes a website or a computer unavailable for target users, traditionally aimed at high-profile banks, credit card companies, government portals and other corporates. By hacking a domain name, hackers are able to redirect users of the website to a completely unrelated IP address, primarily for the purpose of phishing. To put it in simple words, hackers direct more traffic to the website than it could handle. Social Networking site like Twitter and media website like New York Times have already been a target of such attacks.
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