Chinese hacked CNN (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)

sportsillustrated.cnn.com

9 points·zelcon··7 comments

No one is hacked here.

sportsillustrated.cnn.com is a CNAME record to cnnsi.com

cnnsi.com used to be the website for CNN Sports Illustrated, the sports channel that was a joint venture between CNN and Sports Illustrated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_Sports_Illustrated) between 1996 and 2002. Sports Illustrated lives at www.si.com

At some point the domain cnnsi.com was not renewed, expired and was re-registered on May 1, 2015. It seems CNN just forgot to remove an old alias.

It has been like that for a while it seems: https://web.archive.org/web/*/sportsillustrated.cnn.com

June 2014 was the last time it had CNN content.

Yeah, noticed this as well. How can CNN be so oblivious this long? I think the hacker used it to advertise their little web host firm.

http://archive.is/uWx6c

http://archive.is/Wyucp

http://archive.is/sSZxU

This is an installation banner, as in: "You've successfully installed LNMP"

From the LNMP GitHub page:

This script is written using the shell, in order to quickly deployLEMP/LAMP/LNMP/LNMPA(Linux, Nginx/Tengine/OpenResty, MySQL in a production environment/MariaDB/Percona, PHP), applicable to CentOS 5~7(including redhat), Debian 6~8, Ubuntu 12~15 of 32 and 64.

https://github.com/lj2007331/lnmp

Could this just be a DNS issue, pointing at the wrong server or something?

This is definitely a DNS issue.

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