Avira official website seems hacked

[NON]

Glad to hear avast server are protected well, it's excellent

Good job avast team...

[Omid Farhang]

AVG, Avira and WhatsApp use the same DNS provider and it was hijacked

http://thehackernews.com/2013/10/whatsapp-and-avg-antivirus-firm.html

[polonus]

Hi Omid Farhang,

So in the end it was a DNS hijack attack as Avira now has confirmed to have taken place:
http://techblog.avira.com/2013/10/08/major-dns-hijacking-affecting-major-websites-including-avira-com/en/
My advice to Avira's and avast! as well is to have their own name servers inside their very organizations,
so they can be better be validated and controlled.
As was predicted by me higher up in this thread their will be an enormous surge in DNS-related attacks in the foreseeable future.
Let this not fall on deaf ears! So please avast! team be prepared!
But I think Vlk has confirmed they are  prepared to meet any such situation.

polonus

[Secondmineboy]

Avira is now back online.

[polonus]

Here we find avast's side of the story as related by Deborah Salimi
how Vince Steckler's (AVAST CEO) attentiveness saved avast's day:
https://blog.avast.com/2013/10/09/attempted-hack-against-avast/
On Passive  DNS Hardening read: https://archive.farsightsecurity.com/Passive_DNS/passive_dns_hardening_handout.pdf
article author = Robert Edmonds, Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

polonus