[LUNA] Wow out

Paul F. Pearson pfpearson at mchsi.com
Mon Aug 10 16:15:20 CDT 2015


According to comments on /r/HuntsvilleAlabama on reddit, WoW does a Man In The Middle with their DNS, to make announcements like "You've reached 75% of your data cap". Sounds like an opportunity for malware to get in the way. 

----- Original Message -----
> On 08/07/15 23:59, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > On 08/07/15 22:00, Allen Krell wrote:
> >> It appears wowway internet is out.  Waff48 reporting multiple reports of
> >> outages.
> >
> >
> > I am on Wowway just now, & it is working OK for now. I have had issues
> > for the last 18-ish hours, went to their office today & they said
> > everything was AOK .... *Right* ....
> >
> 
> P.S. I also got some weird webpages that showed up during random
> browsing w/ a URL beginning w/ 69.73.<whatever> that traced back to
> Wowway-HSV. I also asked about that & the girl said they thought someone
> hacked some of their boxen (!!!!!!!!!!) ....
> 
> --
> 
> 	William A. Mahaffey III
> 
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