Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[ InsideGoogle - part of the Blog News Channel] Yahoo Music Hacked: Engadget is reporting that a company named “Chapin Information Services”, figured out a exploit in Yahoo! Music Unlimited to download DRM-free tracks.

[The Daily ACK] Google down? Google hacked?: OmMalik has the breaking news... (via Engadget) It looks like Google was briefly down and out with some sort of DNS issue. If anything emphasises our reliance on a single provider for search, mail and the even the blog you're reading now, it's something like this happening. Did anyone feel

[Prems blog] The day Google went down: I verified the historic event with geeks at irc.freenode and behold google.com was down everywhere, including Gmail. It’s historic because theoretically Google.com cannot be downed. But apparently it was just a switch of DNS (nameservers), so in a couple seconds, the geeks were browsing using raw IP addresses, and in minutes, we got the name replicates.

[Donna's SecurityFlash] Brief Outages at Google, eBay Make Headlines: A DNS glitch Saturday left google.com inaccessible for approximately 15 minutes, prompting nearly 100 news stories (and thousands of blog postings) bearing breathless headlines such as "Google Goes AWOL" and "Google Goes Down for 15 Minutes." Some of the fuss can be attributed to an early report by blogger Om Malik that Google had been hacked. Google says the issue was a DNS configuration error, rather than a DNS hijacking, and was quickly fixed.

[Gigaom.com] Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Google (NOT) Hacked? Just A DNS Glitch ...: I find it amazing: Google is now as integrated in our lives as a phone company, or heaven forbid, TV networks. Multiple experts say that the screen grab I got was result of broswers not being able to resolve to Google.com, and instead stumbled upon google.com.net (com.net is the SoGoSearch website, and they have a wildcard match). Once Google’s DNS was restored, browsers stopped the appending, and started functioning normally.

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