The Dark Visitor

In an apparent outrage at the defacing of Baidu, the great national symbol of the PRC interwebz, Chinese hackers have defaced an Iranian site that distributes information about diabetes.  Take that Iranian nationalist hackers!

The Iranian Cyber Army has compromised the DNS records for baidu.com by logging into their DNS management portal at register.com.  You might remember the Iranian Cyber Army from their recent twitter DNS compromise.  There are many blogs and news outlets reporting on this.

I know some readers might wonder if this will spark some sort of cyber war between Iran and the PRC. 

From BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8453718.stm

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

The Chinese national soccer team is in Tehran to play a friendly game against the local boys.  However, all is not well.

During their downtime, the Chinese team likes to get online to see what is happening back home.  The hotel has wireless broadband in the rooms but it costs USD $5 per hour to surf.  The business center in the lobby also has access but that costs USD $4 per hour.

The team members decide to pay the price and use their laptops in the room only to discover that they can’t access Chinese websites such as Sina, Sohu and Netease.  They inquire and find out sure enough, Iranian authorities have them blocked.