Earthlink and Comcast ‘DNS’ Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack DNS

Ryan Singel, reporting for Wired News:

Seeking to make money from mistyped website names, some of the United States’ largest ISPs instead created a massive security hole that allowed hackers to use web addresses owned by eBay, PayPal, Google and Yahoo, and virtually any other large site.

(Thanks to Chris Pepper.)

★ Monday, 21 April 2008