....The hijacking occurred at the DNS (Domain Name System) level, with attackers modifying the DNS records for google.ro, yahoo.ro, microsoft.ro, hotmail.ro, windows.ro, kaspersky.ro and paypal.ro, according to Costin Raiu, director of the global research and analysis team at security vendor Kaspersky Lab.
...Botezatu believes that the DNS records were modified as a result of a security breach at the RoTLD domain registry, which manages the authoritative DNS servers for the entire .ro domain space.
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=D3E...5D1E97C80F652CThe attack in Romania follows a similar one that occurred last week in Pakistan and affected the .pk domains of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal and other companies. The security breach was traced back to PKNIC, the .pk domain registry.
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