Alistapart hacked

[francis]

Get this while you can as it will no doubt be taken down/fixed within 24 hours. Alistapart has just been hacked. The URL redirects to missionarlington.org (http://www.missionarlington.org/) - something of a similar design to ALA. I'll grab a screen shot and put it up later. This is really annoying as it's hampering an article I'm writing...

[francis]

So, this broadband thing. Pretty fast.

Below is a screenshot of the ALA redirect thing. It was very strange, I tried to follow a link from one of the W3C's quality assurance pages (http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size) and got the site below. Then I tried the ALA homepage and got the same thing. It seemed to only last about 2 hours. If you have a look at the site in question, it bears an absolutely remarkable resembalence to all things AlistApart

http://www.websitearchitecture.co.uk/storr/forumimgs/alistapart-redirect-hack.gif

[David]

I tried it about 15 minutes after you posted and got the usual homepage so they obviously sorted it pretty quickly. Obviously someone spotted the layout similarity and decided to make a point.

These sort of domain redirects are very anoying when they happen. About 12 months ago, a similar thing happened to a site that I link to from the CADTutor homepage. The first thing I knew about it was when I recieved a couple of emails from users complaining that I was linking to pornographic sites from my homepage. It was true, my legitimate link to a 3D Graphics site had been hikacked and was going to a porno site. Obviously I removed the link as soon as I knew about it.

I'm not sure how they manage to do it - must be some way of hacking DNS entries.

[francis]

All very strange. I guess they probably know about it but I filled out the contact form in case I was the only person on the planet that did see it. What a pleasant thanks page:

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The CSS (everything from the name of the file to the its location and the way its brought into the document) gives the whole game away. One for pirated-sites, je pense

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Later: A reply from Zeldman says "There was a temporary problem this morning (EST, your afternoon) that we fixed"