Hushmail DNS Attack Blamed on Network Solutions

Basically someone called the registrar of this website and social engineered (conned) enough information for them to be able to alter the dns pointer to their site to one that they wanted people to go to . Network Solutions is probably the most expensive registrar there is and for them not to have security measures in place to prevent something like this is reprehensible.

Hushmail DNS Attack Blamed on Network Solutions
Secure e-mail service provider Hushmail Communications plans to pursue a criminal investigation into a hacking attack that redirected users to a defaced Web site. The company pinned the blame for the breach squarely on the shoulders of domain name registrar Network Solutions.

Hushmail, which markets PGP-encrypted e-mail, file storage and vanity domain services, has opened a criminal investigation with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Vancouver to get to the bottom of a DNS server breach caused by a combination of social engineering, phishing and pharming tactics.

Brian Smith, chief technical officer at Hushmail Communications Corp., said in an interview with Ziff Davis Internet News that the attacker or attackers simply called the Network Solutions Inc. support center and gained access to enough customer account information to alter the Hushmail DNS (Domain Name System) settings.