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Thousands of Sites Mislabeled Phishers After OpenDNS Blocks Google Hosted Scripts

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hundreds of thousands of sites were mislabeled as phishing sites on Wednesday after OpenDNS blocked googleapis.com, a developer resource site for scripts and apps, according to several reports.

Visitors to websites that used Google-hosted jQuery or MooTools saw either a "phishing site blocked" message or a 404 error, according to a report by the Register.

In a post on Geeky Scribbles,  web host Brit-Net managing director Matt Bennett said an issue surrounding the SSL on googleapis may have caused the conflict. He offered directions to move over to Microsoft's DNS with a fallback to googleapis.com. The outage apparently lasted around three hours.