How the Google hack was done
Nice explanation here on how this was done. Basically, it’s a magician’s trick: misdirect everyone to a site that looks like Google (not hard) which will of course fall over under the “attack” of Google’s normal usage. See Search Engine News :: Search Engine Lowdown: Google Under DNS Attack for the rest.
However, I wouldn’t fancy being the people who did this, or allowed it to happen. Sergei Brin is sure to get offers from hitmen all over the world.
Still, it might mean that the DNS registration lunacy, whereby any idiot can insert any junk into the DNS records, will get sorted out.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Why not explain the $700B bailout with a comic - you know, like Google? (25 September 2008; score: 35.44%)
- Apparently it's questionable to question someone else's assertion that someone is a hack.. (29 July 2005; score: 33.92%)
- 'I got a trip to Addis Ababa because of Michael Jackson's nose' (8 July 2004; score: 28.37%)
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