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LinkedIn confirms it suffered a one hour outage due to a ‘DNS issue’

LinkedIn confirms it suffered a one hour outage due to a ‘DNS issue’ | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Business-focused social network LinkedIn is continuing to recover from a DNS error that took the site offline for an hour. The outage began when the popular service's homepage was replaced ...
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Jason Toy's curator insight, June 20, 2013 6:34 AM

Anytime a social media exchange such as this goes dark..questions will be asked

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LinkedIn DNS hijacked, site offline • The Register

LinkedIn DNS hijacked, site offline • The Register | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

LinkedIn is working on its right-on-the-ball-with-security reputation, this time letting slip its domain details.

 

According to this App.net post:

 

“LinkedIn just got DNS hijacked, and for the last hour or so, all of your traffic has been sent to a network hosted by this company [confluence-networks.com]. And they don't require SSL, so if you tried to visit, your browser sent your long-lived session cookies in plaintext.” (User @berg)

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