So just as a reminder, the whole FA "hack" incident would have been over in like, an hour or two, if their domain registrar, Network Solutions, was competent at all.
The attacker gained access to the FA account at the registrar, no idea if it was a basic phish or sim swap or what, and basically all of the shit stemmed from there. They had control for 36 hours, long after Network Solutions was contacted and told "hey someone gained access to our account", and Network Solutions refused to fix this immediately. Per the post from the FA discord, it took "after meeting for several hours" to get this sorted out. Something that should be an immediate revert + lock, and then work on restoring proper ownership during business hours. At WORST. If not just having a 24/7 team for this kind of thing because that's what you do as a fucking registrar, you manage the damn domain name.
It's very obvious that Network Solutions is incapable of dealing with attacks like this, and now lots of potentially malicious people on the internet know that Network Solutions is going to be incompetent in this kind of situation. Big easy target.
If you do any work in IT or know someone who does and they use Network Solutions, you should swap registrars ASAP. If something like this was done by an attacker that was, frankly, competent, it could have caused a lot more damage.
This isn't even new, there's a well documented history of this happening. Hurricane Electric had to deal with their bullshit some months ago. If you don't do computer shit, you've never heard of Hurricane Electric. If you have, you know how big+important they are, and even they had issues getting it sorted out in a timely fashion.
Network Solutions is a massive security hole.
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