In a recent revelation, it has been found that an unknown person from North Korea tried to clone the social networking giant Facebook and named it StarCon.
The website, StarCon, was named after the country’s Internet service provider Star and was made to appear completely like Facebook, reported Motherboard. The site is also known as “Best Korea’s Social Network”in North Korea.
The site was traced by Doug Madory, a researcher at Dyn, a company which monitors internet usage and access around the world. In a statement to Motherboard, Madory told that the site’s DNS resolve to North Korea’s Domain Name System that allows domain names to convert to IP addresses.
The site is set-up to run on PHP Dolphin, an application which let anyone to create their own social network.
Like Facebook, the site allows people from anywhere in the world to create account and post video, photos or message a friend.
Martyn William from the tech blog pointed out it to be a trial that was inadvertently made public.
However, the website has now been hacked by a Scottish teenager, Andrew McKean, who was able to login into website’s back-end simply using the default ‘admin’ and ‘password’ as the login details, which further gave him the control of the website.
