update A three-hour outage today on Yahoo was the result of a malicious attack intentionally aimed at disabling the service, according to company executives.
Yahoo president Jeff Mallett said a "distributed denial of service attack" overwhelmed its Web hosting company's routers beginning at around 10:20 a.m. PST, and apparently ending shortly after 1 p.m. PST. "It appears to be a coordinated outside attack on Yahoo routers here in California in our main data centers," Mallett said in an interview. A denial of service attack is increasingly becoming a common http://news.com.com/2100-1023-236594.html
