CS Professor Gun Sirer's recent talk on DNS vulnerability at the RIPE-52 Conference in Istanbul has attracted a huge amount of attention.
http://ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-52/
There is a posting on slashdot http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/26/1247240and follow-up on the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4954208.stm