Apple Discussions hacked by Tiger-Mate

You may be experiencing a DNS explot. Some DNS servers have been hacked.

What you should try is:

DNS

What is a DNS? DNS stands for Domain Name Server.

When you enter an Internet address such as google.com into a web browser, your system needs to translate the character string into a numeric value. The address google.com translates to 72.14.204.103. A DNS server does this translation. There is a hierarchical series of DNS servers. The first DNS servers starts on your machine.

When using DHCP to set up your Internet connection, your ISP's DHCP server will provide you with an address of a DNS server.

You may configure your own DNS server address or addresses if you wish. Only change the DNS Servers entry. Leave the rest the same.

*Try Google*

Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.

To try it out:

Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

*Use OpenDNS*

BDAqua suggests in a post:

You can use OpenDNS for looking up web addresses.

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/device/apple-osx-tiger

(Please note that you do not need to a joint Open DNS to use it.)

Free Fast Public DNS Servers List

http://theos.in/windows-xp/free-fast-public-dns-server-list/

I saw the same thing on my web site Sunday morning. Safari displayed my home page normally, but Firefox displayed the worthless "Hacked by xxxx". Like these idiots think anyone outside of their little group cares one pigeon dropping for their display of "skills".

I was able to fix the issue in just a few minutes by opening my site's file listing and deleting files I knew shouldn't be there, and replacing any .html files with my backups. My hosting company sent this message this morning. This is partial, but explains what happened.

As you may be aware already, our network, and potentially your account, was the target of a large scale website defacing attack on Sunday, September 25th. We understand and share the upset and frustration felt by all of our affected customers. Please know that we are working as fast as possible to help all customers repair their sites.

The defacement worked by replacing index files in all public_html directories with the attacker's index.php. At this time, it does not appear to be any more malicious than taking over the web site's home page, but we are still reviewing servers at this time.

We sincerely apologize for the delay in notifying you of the changes, but in the last day our focus has been on actively repairing sites via automated and manual systems. Most we have been able to successfully repair, but we want to be sure you are aware of the attack and you review your sites if you have not already done so.

There was a bit more, but essentially, it was an attack on the hosting company's servers. A users Mac or Windows machine was not compromised to deface your site.

You may want to use LittleSnitch to monitor your Internet traffice.

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html