China's Leading Search Engine Baidu Hacked...

[companyone]

Hi,



China's Leading Search Engine Baidu Hacked...

China's leading search engine Baidu has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army - the same group responsible for last month's attack on Twitter.

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

The hackers attacked the homepage of Baidu.com by 'poisoning' the server's domain name system (DNS) with a rogue address, which presented users with a page created by the Iranian Cyber Army. The page featured an image of the Iranian flag and, according to a user comment on The Next Web, the Persian text stated: "Iranian Cyber Army has been established to fight back against Zionist and pro-democracy websites."

While the group's previous attack on Twitter was believed to be due to the role played by the microblogging site in June's Iranian student protests, it is unclear why the group targeted Baidu, but sources are suggesting that it could be related to Iran's nuclear ambitions. Reuters reports that China and Iran enjoy a relatively good relationship based on trading energy and the sale of fuel from Chinese state companies to Iran, and the Iranian Cyber Army is not believed to be involved with the nation's government.

Baidu outranks Google significantly in China and is the nation's most popular search engine, enjoying more than 60 per cent of the market share. The attack took down the site for at least four hours, but it is now functioning again. SOURCE

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dan

 

[Anthony Ng]

For those who are not aware of it (most probably aren't), the naming of Baidu, unlike that of Google, is actually VERY poetic. The name, made up from 2 Chinese words "a hundred times", is taken from an ancient Chinese poem, about searching for a beautiful lady in a busy, festive night market.

 

[companyone]

Thanks NameSlave....

It is..."VERY poetic".

I had no idea the meaning of the name.


Cool!

Dan

 

[NetworkMsia]

cool name

 

[dn-101]

I wonder whether 'hacking' is 'rape' or 'peeping' in cyber parlance

 

[Soofi]

Hacking is actually cowards way of protesting, and is the last stage one should resort to but I still cant figure out why and about what they were protesting by hackign Baidu.

On a better note, I think Baidu is a lovely domain name they had chosen for a popular search engine..