>>I hope someone nails these crackers. So far I've been inconvenienced on 3 sites:
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>>Yahoo
>>CNN
>>Dell (not yet confirmed, but apparently down at 20:45 PST)
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>The original yahoo hack was the day before, but at about the same time as your post last night I could get into only a few webistes for about 2 hours.
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>Here is the news item on what was happening last night:
>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/yahoo000208.html

This is causing some big financial headaches. Auctions ending on eBay (where I operate) in the downtime, for example, didn't get late bids. I've heard it said that catching the perps may be very difficult, due to the type of anonymous, delayed, maze-oriented attacks, with no traceable remnants of code.

Some of these sites may have to resort to logons for virtually all features to keep out the hackers, or at least make them more traceable. We may see more of this type of security soon...