How hackers took down Baidu
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China's leading search engine claims a shocking lack of security nous at its chosen domain name registrar was responsible for a prolonged outage last month. China's Baidu says in legal papers that that an obvious scammer was able to con Register.com support staff into handing over the keys to its kingdom, resulting in millions of dollars of lost revenue. Baidu, which commands 70 percent of the Chinese search market, was offline for at least four hours on the 12th of...
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