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Comcast hack leaves users without email

vincent himpe

unknown webserver ... 

Posted Thursday 29th May 2008 20:14 GMT

Coat

on linux ...

<insert 'pengiun being blasted with a double barreled shotgun' icon here>

mine's the asbestos lined done.

Anonymous Coward

Heartwarming! 

Posted Thursday 29th May 2008 20:14 GMT

Thumb Up

How refreshing to see an old school style hack against an evil giant, instead of tthe RBN trying to rip off people and the Chinese goverment de-facing Tibetan web sites....

Anonymous Coward

Comcast Sucks! 

Posted Thursday 29th May 2008 20:14 GMT

Stop

When they took over, I went back to DSL. They suck.

Michael Johnson

Yep, still screwed up. 

Posted Thursday 29th May 2008 20:14 GMT

Alien

Netcraft reports that they are running Sun-ONE-Web-Server/6.1 now. And the site is still screwed up.

Then again, Comcast can't even use a password field right... They DISPLAY your password when you type it. WTB a GOOD ISP. Do they even still exist?

James Butler

Server 

Posted Thursday 29th May 2008 20:14 GMT

"Comcast.net runs using unknown web server software on a Linux platform"

They're running Apache with the "ServerSignature" config element set to "off".

Violet's Boy

Cox servers feeling pain from Comcast 

Posted Friday 30th May 2008 00:43 GMT

Unhappy

Users sending email through the Cox servers with the return address of comcast.net are unable to send at this time. If the return address is changed to anything except comcast.net the email goes out. Must have to due with the DNS and some blocking that Cox is doing because of the problems that Comcast is having.

IR

Strange 

Posted Friday 30th May 2008 00:54 GMT

They stopped me using my personal email server last week without telling me, so I couldn't send any mail. Took me ages to find out why, then I had to use the comcast email address (that I have never used and had to find out what it was by phoning them up) they gave me when I first signed up a year ago to log into their email server and change all the settings. Sorted it all last night when email was supposed to be down!

Madmax

Inbound email also diverted 

Posted Friday 30th May 2008 04:59 GMT

Unhappy

The DNS hack appears to have affected incoming email also. I was CC'd on an email which should have come at 11:30pm (28th May), but didn't know about the email until someone responded to the group today and I got their message. Several hours earlier I had no problems getting email from the same individual.

I guess the hackers got a truck load of email addresses also.

Anonymous Coward

@IR (personal email server?!) 

Posted Friday 30th May 2008 16:21 GMT

Alert

"Personal email servers" are indistinguishable from zombie PCs... and that's probably why it's in the TOS you signed with the ISP that you agree not to run one. Don't blame an ISP for doing their job (and not informing you) when you don't respect the TOS.