Update: 08th February 2010: Time IST 11.30 AM

TCS.com restored, and it is live now. TCS Engineers proved their skills.

TCS.com server hacked! Right now, Go and visit the India’s top most IT Company’s official website (www.tcs.com), it has been hacked and showing “For Sale” words in the title of the website.

Today Evening exactly at IST 10.55 PM, I visited tcs.com and got shocked by seeing those “For Sale” letters.  The hacker put his email for the domain sale deals. Also he used French words in that page. It’s just a translation of those English words.

Know about TCS:

TCS offers Software services and Consultancy services.  It has headquarters in Mumbai. And they are having branch offices in 41 countries. For more information please just refer their verified WikiPedia page.

TCS.COM – Hosting & Domain Information – 07th February 2010

(Note this is my analysis only. I’ve listed some of the main information about tcs.com’s hosting and domain registration details.)

Domain Name Details:

• Tcs.com registered on 25-nov-1997.
• Expires on 24-nov-2011.
• And note the point: Updated on 07-feb-2010 (Today). It maybe confirms the hacker hacked domain registration control panel. ( See the whois details here)

TCS.com Hosting Server Name: Tracom Networks

TCS.com hosted in Tracom Networks. And the IP address is 216.15.200.140. I googled about Tracom Networks and got their website http://tracom.net/. It shows “Under Construction” text. And its server registered as with the name of “Tracomm Infotech Pvt”.

The TCS.com server pointing to 4 name servers. That is NS1.TRACOM.NET, NS2.TRACOM.NET, NS3.TCS.COM, NS4.TCS.COM, NS5.TCS.COM.

And they are using ISS 5.0 server with ISO/IEC 8859 encoding. They designed the site in ASP.net framework.

Note the point:
Here this hacker hacked Microsoft technology not the Linux server. Till yesterday I believed no one can hack Microsoft powered IIS server and the ASP.net applications. Toady I lost all those hopes. May be this guy have lot of practices in hacking.

I think this guy played in the Web.config files. Actually, .net guys used to say, no one can change the Web.config files. Here it is proved…

Check now: All of the following popular pages showing Runtime Error.

• Investors
• About
• Contact
• News
• World wide

Good News:
TCS.com’s Career portal (http://careers.tcs.com) still alive and it is safe in Java Servers. This is the sub domain of tcs.com and it is hosted in their own server networks called TATA Communications formerly VSNL.

How to find the Bad Hacker:

• If TCS installed any analytics software in their server means, we can easily track the hacker’s IP Address matching to hacker’s Hotmail id logs. But he can easily escape by hiding his IP address.
• Next, TCS HR team must hire the Ethical Hackers to find the Bad Hacker. They can try by hiring World’s no.1 Ethical hacker Ankit Fadia.  His Twitter ID:  http://twitter.com/ankit_fadia

I think no data lost in this hacking. Because, TCS is India’s largest IT Company and 95% sure, they are having backuping system in their serves.

I hope TCS people can win in this hacking game. Wait and see…

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Features of Nero BackItUp & Burn:

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Today I got the following direct message from my follower. He included one shorten URL after the message. When I click that one it is redirected to a Fake twitter login page, and it was same as real Twitter login page. I checked its URL in address bar, and it shows different URL than original Twitter Login URL. So I confirmed that guy try getting my twitter login details using Phishing method.

What is Phishing?

Phishing is the fraudulent process of stealing your username and password by showing real member site’s login page. Hackers will crate the same design of the popular site’s login page and host it in to their servers. And now they will follow you on twitter and send direct messages like above to steal your twitter password.

How Phishing Works:

Here the design and the look of that fake page will be same as your original login page but the URL is different. Most busy users won’t look for the URLs. They will enter the username and password and hit the login button.

• After clicking the login button it won’t go to member’s page immediately. It will return the “Wrong Username and Password” error message.
• Now again our busy users will enter their username and password, now it will redirect to original members site.

So In the first process itself, they got your username and password and stored in their database. Now the hacker enjoys your username and password by doing some illegal activities. There are so many Phishing technique is available: Orkut Phishing, Gmail Phishing, Yahoo Mail Phishing, Facebook Phishing, Net banking Phishing and now Twitter Phishing.

What they will do using our login details?

• Using your Twitter login they can promote bad sites including web malware sites.
• Using your Gmail, Yahoo mail and AOL mail login they can send spam mails to your friends. They can steal your email contacts, Account password.
• If your login details got by terrorists means, they can use your email as major communication medium between their network.

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Just simple methods only. But you have to be aware at any time.

• Whenever going to login to any member sites, just look for the website address in your browser’s address bar.  There you can find the real website address or fake address.
• Also look for your browser’s status bar before clicking any links in your email.
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• Do not store your personal information such as Credit Card number, bank account details in your email.
• Never follow fake profiles in Twitter and in Facebook.

Check the Twitter Phishing screenshot. (Click to enlarge the image)

My practice:

I have the habit of checking the URL of the site for avoiding Phishing.  I will look the address bar and browser status bar to confirm its originality. If it is wrong means, I can confirm, I’m under Phishing attack.  Follow me on Twitter…. !

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