Google DNS servers suffer brief traffic hijack

By Juha Saarinen on Mar 17, 2014 8:13AM

Are security measures enabled?

Traffic to Google's commonly used public DNS service was rerouted over the weekend, meaning traffic with Domain Name System resolution queries destined for Google's servers ended up at a Venezuelan network instead. UK telco BT's Latin America division in Venezuela became the destination for the ...

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