to their certificates that in the end it comes down to guess work to proceed or not. They defeat the purpose of the certificate almost and as in our global economy are happy to sell to anyone who provides any details as long as they pay with minimal checks - again defeating the point. This isn't a new practice, our organisation have utilised this our selfs when a server crashed & one had to be put into place quickly - it the way of the world in production environments but the service providers who grant access to the individuals who do this un monitored should be held accountable as should the authorities investigate the matter. Wait a minute Maybe my DNS has been compromised, and that is why when I read news sites I keep getting made-up stories about terrorist plots interspersed with normal news, to try to subdue me with fear. Very clever! I better go and check my settings... in response Gordon Fecyk open recursive A open recursive DNS server is a DNS server that will perform recursive queries for any client anywhere. For example some major ISPs DNS servers will accept dns queries from any public IP address not just their customer's ips. It isnt a proper implementation of DNS as it leaves DDOS and cache poisoning easier to perform Affected customer base? figures? It seems to me this article is pretty scare-mongery - There aren't any real facts in there about how prevalent this problem is.