Off-Hours Trading: Market Looks to Move Higher Despite Internet Hacking

All eyes will be -- well -- here, on the Internet, to see if the two-day wave of Web hacking will continue today or float off into the ethernet, or intraspace or wherever it is that hackers call home.

(One thing's for sure, wherever they live you can bet there's some pretty fierce debate about whether Picard, Kirk or Janeway was the best captain.)

On Monday, Yahoo!'s (YHOO Quote) Web site was down for about three hours. Then, yesterday the wave of hacking spread to eBay (EBAY Quote), Amazon.com (AMZN Quote), CNN.com and Buy.com (BUYX Quote).

For more on what happened yesterday take a gander at the fine yarn spun by TheStreet.com/NYTimes.com joint newsroom. ...