Google has been the target of phishing and hacking of late, mostly phishing - which is probably the next worst thing on the Internet after spam.

Some of the news online about the attacks on Google and its websites/products:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/11/01/google_sites_plagued_by_phishing_opportunities.html

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/25/new_google_desktop_exploit_discovered.html

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/20/phishing_attacks_possible_on_google.html

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/25/google_fix_source_disclosing_error_condition.html

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/22/google_fix_second_phishing_vulnerability.html

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Google-Plugs-Hole-in-Gmail-37765.html

http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory1004-insight-Google+security+flaw+may+have+imperilled+users-status-25-newsID-16057.html

The interesting thing is all of the above have happened in a span of 10 days! 

It is not just the public showing interest in Google's public offerings :)

And is Google braced to take all of this?  Looking at the series of things above, I am not quite sure.

GMail crashed a couple of times on me and Orkut seems to take forever to load. Hmm...