The Internet is becoming a dangerous place day-by-day and especially for those innocent web users who rely on 3rd party services. The latest bad news is that the World's largest and most widely used Google's free public DNS (Domain name system) resolvers

DNS is the master address list for the Internet, which translates IP addresses into human readable form and vice versa. According to Internet monitoring firm, Google's DNS server/32 was hijacked yesterday for 22 minutes.

It is suspected that Hackers exploited a well-known

vulnerability in the so-called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is

used to exchange data between large service providers, and hijacking

could allow the attackers to simply re-route the traffic to a router they controlled.

The Google's DNS server handles around 150 billion queries a day and during the 22 minutes of hijacking, millions of Internet users, including Financial institutions , Governments were redirected to BT's (British multinational telecommunications services company) Latin America division in Venezuela and Brazil.