Major web sites affected by DNS redirect attack

According to reports, the web sites of several major companies - including UPS, Vodafone, Acer and more - were affected when a DNS redirect attack on the systems of a U.K. domain registrar occurred last Sunday. This rendered the sites inaccessible for a period of time and traffic for some sites was redirected to a page that was controlled by hackers. You can read more about the attack here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20102308-245/sites-of-ups-acer-others-redirected-in-dns-attack/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20