--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:54 AM -0600 Sean Ware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

And today's followup news article where said service goes down in a
ball of flames:

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39168558,00.htm

SlashDot coverage:

<http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/0250244>

Looks like it was probably a DNS poisoning attack, so the site itself wasn't taken down. Rather, some clients querying old DNS servers were redirected to a defaced mirror site set up by the spammers.


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