"EBK" and "Defiant," the online monikers of the hackers who disrupted Comcast's online service, have gone on record about their exploits. They say that a hole in domain-name registrar Network Solutions' security let them change Comcast's registered address in domain records to "Dildo Room, 69 Dick Tard Lane." Network Solutions denies there was a vulnerability. [Wired]

Internet service provider Comcast had the comcast.net domain name server redirected to a server in Germany after hackers got control of the site's DNS entry with Network Solutions. For a portion of yesterday evening, the homepage read:

If you've had trouble getting your morning Valleywag fix, I'd like to proudly pass the buck to Network Solutions, who suffered an outage.