Summary: Microsoft loses control of MSN New Zealand

THERE ARE many examples just like that, e.g. [*], but this one just happens to be the latest.

Visitors to the msn.co.nz website are being re-directed to a site that includes a photograph of Microsoft boss Bill Gates with pie on his face.

The site usually carries news stories.

However hackers have changed the name servers which means that visitors to the site are redirected to the hackers' website.

This is something to bear in mind when Microsoft raves about security. Not even Microsoft can keep its own Web sites secure using its very own software which it supposedly masters and keeps up to date. ⬆ _____ [*] MSN.co.uk money related websites hacked and defaced

Two websites belonging to MSN (Microsoft Network) in the United Kingdom, were defaced today by an attacker who goes by the nickname "DARK LORD".