With internet and computer security always being tested, are you shocked that a human, you know, a non-perfect creature at best, accidentally slipped and let the cat out of the bag?

A computer security company on Monday inadvertently published details of a major flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) several weeks before they were due to be disclosed.

The flaw was discovered several months ago by IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky, who worked through the early part of this year with Internet software vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco and the Internet Systems Consortium to patch the issue.

Just for the record, it’s not nice to hold cats in bags. Or shipping boxes. Not at all.

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