Thousands of Irish internet users found that they were unable to access Google earlier today when the nameservers for google.ie began to point to a third-party server based in Indonesia.
Whether this was the result of a malicious hack or an admin screwup is as yet uncertain, but the danger was that if someone bad was responsible for the change they could have potentially taken users to a bogus Google website, and infected them with malware or distributed advertising pop-ups.
Many Irish users turned to social networking sites to describe how they were unable to access google.ie.
Read more: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/09/google-disappears-for-irish-internet-users-but-was-it-a-nameserver-hack-or-admin-screwup/
