DNS threat is real now:
Posted by An_Old_Man on July 27 2008 08:27:34
Hackers seems to have released the code needed for making attack on vulnerable DNS-servers.
epn.dk have an article about this topic, stating hackers are ready with 'cache poisoning'.
FPSAdmin.com has an interesting article:
DNS Checker
Recently, a significant threat to DNS, the system that translates names you can remember (such as www.doxpara.com) to numbers the Internet can route (66.240.226.139) was discovered, that would allow malicious people to impersonate almost any website on the Internet. Software companies across the industry have quietly collaborated to simultaneously release fixes for all affected name servers. To find out if the DNS server you use is vulnerable, click below.
- Click here to check your DNS
You should visit FPSAdmin.com to read the full article, which also propose a solution for this problem, if your ISP is insecure.
For those of you who doesn't read english, google is my friend.
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Oldman