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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 198 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn dns inventor warns big threat comments Discuss  
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=145663By Kelly Jackson HigginsSenior EditorDark ReadingFebruary 11, 2008The industry is just one multi-million-dollar corporate data breach away from waking up to the serious and often-silent threat of corrupted DNS resolution servers, says DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris.Mockapetris -- who is also chief scientist and chairman of the board for network naming and address vendor Nominum -- says the recent research on corrupted DNS resolution servers by researchers read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 169 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: perl netdns module dns response denial service comments Discuss  
Beyond Security has reported a vulnerability in the Net::DNS Perl module, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:http://secunia.com/software_inspector/Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects insecure versions of applications installed * Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied * Assists you in updating your system and applications * Runs thro read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 155 days ago
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46004-1.htmlBy Dan CampbellSpecial to GCNGCN.com03/25/08Network researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have unveiled a method that federal systems administrators can use to protect their systems from increasingly complex attacks launched via the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet and private IP networks.DNS has long been a critical function of the Internet and private IP networks, but one that tended to operate somewhat incognito. T read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 150 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: powerdns recursor dns cache poisoning vulnerability comments Discuss  
Amit Klein has reported a vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:http://secunia.com/software_inspector/Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects insecure versions of applications installed * Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied * Assists you in updating your system and applications * Runs through your browser. No in read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 142 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: microsoft windows dns client predictable transaction id vulnerability comments Discuss  
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:http://secunia.com/software_inspector/Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects insecure versions of applications installed * Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied * Assists you in updating your system and applications * Runs through your browser. No installa read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 135 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: dns lords expose netizens poisoning comments Discuss  
'A dumbfounding mystery'More than a decade after serious holes were discovered in the internet's address lookup system, end users remain vulnerable to so-called domain name system cache poisoning, a security researcher has warned.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 134 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/dns_cache_poisoning/By Dan Goodin in San FranciscoThe Register15th April 2008More than a decade after serious holes were discovered in the internet's address lookup system, end users remain vulnerable to so-called domain name system cache poisoning, a security researcher has warned.Developers of the software that handles DNS lookups have scrambled to patch buggy code that could allow the attacks, but not to the satisfaction of Amit Klein, CTO of security firm Trustee read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 105 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn omb agencies lock dns servers comments Discuss  
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46262-1.htmlBy John RendlemanGCN.com05/14/08 The Office of Management and Budget will soon require agencies to configure their Doman Name System (DNS) servers to the security specifications set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.OMB will issue a memo outlining the new policy shortly, according to Karen Evans, OMB's administrator for electronic government and information technology.The policy will roughly follow DNS security guidelines already published read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 104 days ago
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145945/dns_trouble_knocks_nsa_off_internet.htmlBy Robert McMillanIDG News ServiceMay 15, 2008A server problem at the U.S. National Security Agency has knocked the secretive intelligence agency off the Internet.The nsa.gov Web site was unresponsive at 7 a.m. Pacific time Thursday and continued to be unavailable throughout the morning for Internet users.The problem was resolved at around 11 a.m. Pacific time, according to Web site measurement company Netcraft.The read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 89 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn comcasts dns records hijacked pair young hackers comments Discuss  
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37703/108/By Humphrey Cheung TG Daily May 30, 2008Philadelphia (PA) - Comcast's homepage and webmail were unavailable for several hours from Wednesday to Thursday after a pair of young hackers hijacked the company's DNS records. The hackers, going by the names of Defiant and EBK, also defaced the Comcast.net homepage after they tried warning Comcast's technical contact about the intrusion. By Thursday night, all Comcast services seemed to be working normally.Comcast read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 65 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: icann meddling dns poses security problem comments Discuss  
The interception of Internet traffic to snoop on phone calls or track surfers' behavior is a hot topic -- but what's keeping members of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee up at night is the interception of traffic to and from sites that don't even exist. They explained why in a session at ICANN's public meeting in Paris on Monday. read more »
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