Baidu hacked by 'Iranian cyber army'

[TruthSeeker]

Baidu hacked by 'Iranian cyber army'

China's most popular search engine, Baidu, has been targeted by the same hackers that took Twitter offline in December, according to reports.

A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army redirected Baidu users to a site displaying a political message.

The site was down for at least four hours on Tuesday, Chinese media said.

Last year's attack on micro-blogging service Twitter had the same hallmarks, sending users to a page with an Iranian flag and message in Farsi.

"This morning, Baidu's domain name registration in the United States was tampered with, leading to inaccessibility," Baidu said in a statement.

Visitors to the site were greeted with the message: "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army".

The message was accompanied by a picture of the national flag of Iran.

"In China, Baidu outranks Google as the search engine of choice, receiving millions of visits every day. That makes it an extremely attractive target for cybercriminals," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos.

It is not yet clear whether the site itself was compromised or its so-called DNS records.

DNS records are like a telephone book, converting website names like baidu.com into a sequence of numbers understandable by the internet.

"It's possible someone changed the lookup, meaning whenever surfers entered baidu.com into their browsers they were instead taken to a website that wasn't under the search engine's control," explained Mr Cluley.

It seems as if the hackers used the attack as an opportunity to create political graffiti rather than inflict real damage.

"If that third party website had contained malware then millions of computers could have been infected and identities stolen," said Mr Cluley.

"Attacks like this are a reminder to everyone that you always need to have security scanning every webpage you visit, even if it's a well-known legitimate website," he added.

BBC News - Baidu hacked by 'Iranian cyber army'

 

[Luftwaffe]

One word ica idiots online..

 

[FreekiN]

They hacked CHINA?? Holy cow, there is going to be some epic retaliation.

 

[Kompromat]

I Think BBC as got few days left

wel it means Iran has advance technology they would even be able to hack jewish computers
Maybe Israel should spend few billion dollars to protect their systems from Iranian Super dooper cyber army .. bloody BBC.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

I Think BBC as got few days left

wel it means Iran has advance technology they would even be able to hack jewish computers
Maybe Israel should spend few billion dollars to protect their systems from Iranian Super dooper cyber army .. bloody BBC.

You're right comrade! This is a pathetic attempt by zio-fascists to try to create animonsity between Iran and China, but we the people of both know who is really behind it (just like the Al CIAda).

 

[Red Dwarf]

So the problem for you guys are not the attack or the attackers but some channel that reported it......What should i call you...

 

[conworldus]

CIA will be pretty stupid if they really think that we will blame Iran for it... Yes, we know who did it, and we probably have the list of names too, which will sould like "John" and "Luke" and "Richard".

 

[Red Dwarf]

Baidu is not even a govt website....

 

[TruthSeeker]

Baidu is not even a govt website....

Whoa! Everything in the PRC is "government". That's the whole point of the PR in PRC!

 

[Kompromat]

You're right comrade! This is a pathetic attempt by zio-fascists to try to create animonsity between Iran and China, but we the people of both know who is really behind it (just like the Al CIAda).

Man no joke i am a regular listener to BBC world service radio and trust me , i reckon there is no Comedy show in the world that can compete this PUM BS

 

[TruthSeeker]

Man no joke i am a regular listener to BBC world service radio and trust me , i reckon there is no Comedy show in the world that can compete this PUM BS

Sir Black blood! Just curious. If the BBC is as you say, why would you spend any of your life's precious moments listening to it?

 

[xuxu1457]

Whoa! Everything in the PRC is "government". That's the whole point of the PR in PRC!

Baidu，Huawei，Lenovo and so on are all private

Type Public
Founded Beijing, China, 2000
Founder Robin Li and Eric Xu(after studied in the USA and back to China)
Headquarters Beijing, China
Area served China, Japan
Industry Internet search
Products Search engine
Services Internet search services

Introduction(介&#32461
Baidu (Chinese: 百度; pinyin: Bǎidù) is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including an online collaboratively-built encyclopedia (Baidu Baike), and a searchable keyword-based discussion forum. As of 21 March 2008, Baidu is ranked 19th overall in Alexa's internet rankings. In December 2007 Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index.

Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. The domain baidu.com attracted at least 5.5 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com scentury.

Source
“ Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. 'Baidu' was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compared the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. '...hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.' Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal. ”

Development (发展历&#21490
Baidu started with a popular music search feature called "MP3 Search" and its comprehensive lists of popular Chinese music based on download numbers. Baidu locates file formats such as MP3, WMA and SWF. The multimedia search feature is mainly used in searches for Chinese pop music. While such works are copyrighted under Chinese law, Baidu claims on its legalese page that linking to these files does not break Chinese laws.

Chinese government and industry sources stated that Baidu received a license from Beijing, which allows the search engine to become a fully-fledged news website. Thus Baidu will be able to provide its own reports, besides showing certain results as a search engine. The company is already getting its news department ready. Baidu is the first Chinese search engine to receive such a license.

Baidu has started its own search engine in Japan found at www.baidu.jp; it is the first regular service that the company provides outside of China. It includes a search bar for web page and image searches, user help and advanced services.

Baidu's MP3 Search feature has been criticized by the Office of the United States Trade Representative's Special 301 report stating that “Baidu as the largest of an estimated seven or more China-based ‘MP3 search engines’ offering deep links to song files for downloads or streaming.”

Baidu's brand advertising feature can help the advertisers to show a branded message including images to largely increase brand awareness and click-through rate (up to 75%).

 

[Kompromat]

Sir Black blood! Just curious. If the BBC is as you say, why would you spend any of your life's precious moments listening to it?

Because Its good entertainment comedy program and i like the way they present their " own " agenda folded in world view.

I remember an hour before they reported that Iran has banned all journalists from covering the " Rallies " against the Govet .

An hour later their Corespondent was reporting from Tehran