Another hacking story and this time it’s not a government website, but TCS’s website, TCS.com
TCS Website Hacked
The hacker has even put up the whos.among.us widget to display how many people are on the site at any given point.
Hacker has even put up his email id, in case you want to buy the domain.
Also see: 692 Government Sites Hacked
Update: The site has been restored.
Hat tip: Nimish
wow. The CEO should be fired for this..:D How are they going to ensure security for their clientele?
What an irony. The website of biggest IT company of India is hacked. If this can happen with TCS, I am wondering about small players. Smaller companies would be more vulnerable.
This is really a big blot on TCS image.
Here, DNS was hijacked at the DNS provider’s side .TCS is back in action as soon as they found the problem. DNS propagation takes time, and it’s not their(TCS’s) fault.
The site is working fine. So the question is when the this screen shot taken? and is it genuine?
Site has been restored now – the post has been updated with the details.
Not yet Restored still displaying For sale
Seems like a case of fraudulent domain transfer or domain control panel cracking as opposed to actual hacking of the tcs.com website. The DNS has been reverted now by the powers that be and should start to resolve back to its original home for everyone soon.
jotirmoy,
The traditional web companies normally have their CEOs/founders in control of domains, in case of TCS it is likely some bean counter way down the the hierarchy ?
Hello
This is a tremendous mark in indian IT security sector, every engineering student opting for computers software, and every body learning computers from childhood and many more stories. but still the cinema is same
We all Learn and work for other international companies, even the national top companies failed now, and its a complete fail story for indian computer geeks. We create softwares, we create many things but we dont create security to secure it
and i still know that india to be IT secured country is a long march. Until we all feel shame of our infrastructure and our IT sector ( remember we means WE, every body has the role to play but we play for international clients and get paid by indian companies and thats how our companies and our infrastructure and out security
if WE work for our self and We get paid by our companies then it might be another story
Let me know your thoughts
Thanks & Regards
Sai Pothuri
Well , get your facts correct first.
lol what ever fact it is, previously its government sites and now technology sites, now tcs can anybody bet on infy, wipro etc etc that they cant be hacked??
Boss what ever the fact is,either dns or some other type of illegal entry into system, they entered and they changed, and we fought all the day to get pages back.
Remember a person who can enter your home illegal for theft can enter any home and security this is where our indian students, and our great IT people who draw lakhs fail to protect our indian sites
Thanks & Regards
Sai Pothuri
http://tcs.com/ still shows for sale. Where as
http://www.tcs.com/homepage/Pages/default.aspx is Live
it is still the same , even mails are down complete dns zone is attacked and taken off
It’s still up for sale
I called @ TCS office and they said Sunday today no one can take care of this today.. Plzz call tomorrow.. WTF.. its a serious issue
That is a typical Government office working style…. Not much different from TCS!
@Ramanujam – please do not insult government Office by comparing it with TCS. TCS doesn’t even deserve that credit. Worthless guys there. They just get salary for taming people with fear and anger..
hi, who has picked up? the network guy?
See this is the exact reason why Indians should not do products. We are kings who will think of restoring our website only on working days. Why work today when comes tomorrow
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I think it is still hacked.
Most links on this page dont work as expected for example :
http://www.tcs.com/industries/Pages/default.aspx
They all redirect to m.tcs.com
Hi
the site is working fine.. and restored it seems..
any idea what was there at time in the m.tcs.com?
TCS?
Oh.. come on..
AS USUAL “EXPERIENCE CERTAINITY” here also..
Nice blog. Iam folowing you from my mobile rss reader.
This seems to be a DNS problem?
There is a video link on page http://devilsworkshop.org/tcs-official-website-hacked/
which points to DNS problem…
Its not the tcs.com that is hacked rather DNS server that you are using,like google dns ..change the dns server to
that of opendns .
208.67.222.222 or 208.67.222.220
and it will open fine
-Alok
It is not the TCS web site hacked, it is DNS server, where the ip got changed. Pls check the below link:http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/07/indian-it-giant-tata-consultancy-services-
what a shame………
Thank you for your help!
Your blog made me think of a quote: “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work, by All Capp”
Think it over my friend
Great information! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks! Roberto Justus
Hi friend, still there is some trouble with tcs website.. see the screenshot here http://jeshmal4u.blogspot.com/2010/05/tcs-website-is-still-having-troubles.html