Many people have noticed that the UPS site was cleared in the afternoon. While groups like LulzSec anonymous and have received more publicity in recent times, there are other people who want to attack sites, and today, a group called TurkGuvenligi (translated into turkish League Trust) is responsible for the defacement. The group seems to be in Turkey, which is based on the ticket in their Twitter feed. In addition, the translator of Google to announce that their tweets are Turks.
The group posted a page that proudly says “piracy is not a crime.” In addition, the group said today that “the Day of the pirates.” Not only attacked the UPS site, but Zone-H, Vodafone.com, theregister.co.uk, acer.com, betfair.com and telegraph.co.uk nationalgeographic.com were also attacked. Since all these companies to use their registrar NetNames group is suspected of not attacking the servers of the companies assets, but rather change the DNS records to point to the site page.
Softpedia announced last month that the group defaced the site of HSBC Korea. It does not seem that the data was one of these attacks, but the group does not seem to like to have attacks recently.
Based on G4TV forum posts, the site of UPS seems to have been down for about thirty minutes, although the actual time depends on the duration of each server had the wrong DNS information in cache.
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