[bruinbirdman]

"So being able to alter the associations between domain names and IP addresses allows malicious attackers to control where online information gets routed. "

I am no geek. I use the web a lot and notice stuff.

Yesterday at one of my favorite sources for FR http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/index.jhtml, "Business", first IE tells me it can't open the window. When I refreshed the URL, I went to Walmart.com.

Is this what is being referred to in the article. Is it happening already?

yitbos

[dayglored]

> Yesterday at one of my favorite sources for FR http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/index.jhtml, "Business", first IE tells me it can't open the window. When I refreshed the URL, I went to Walmart.com. Is this what is being referred to in the article. Is it happening already?

Some exploits are running out there, but I'd say unlikely in the example you cite. The chances that the nameservers for the Telegraph and Walmart aren't patched this far into August, are miniscule. Non-zero... but very small.

I suspect something else did what you saw.