Microsoft Issues DNS Poisoning Advisory
News In response to a heightened security alert, Microsoft has updated its customer advisories for protecting its server software against DNS cache poisoning attacks. The software behemoth revised its recommended settings for some Windows Server...
[April 8, 2005, 9:55]
DNS Servers 'vulnerable To Attack'
News DNS servers which run BIND versions lower than 9 are 'opening the door' to pharming attacks through DNS cache poisoning, The Measurement Factory claimed. DNS cache poisoning involves hacking into DNS servers and replacing the numeric addresses of...
[October 25, 2005, 17:55]
F-Secure Answers .bank Criticisms
News Criticisms included that the domain would do nothing against DNS cache poisoning, which involves hacking into domain name servers and replacing the numeric addresses of legitimate websites with the addresses of malicious sites.
[May 21, 2007, 12:41]
Phishers Pushing Spyware Through DNS Holes
News Known as DNS poisoning, the scheme redirects Internet users to bogus sites where they may be asked for sensitive information or have spyware installed on their PCs. The Internet Storm Centre, which represents a group of incident response...
[March 9, 2005, 8:25]
The Anatomy Of Spyware
White Papers Spyware applications that generate pop-up ads, hijack browser home pages, redirect Web searches, steal Web traffic via DNS poisoning, track Internet activity, or steal personal information pose a serious security threat to your network.
[May 16, 2006, 0:00]
DNS Servers 'vulnerable To Attack'
Talkback DNS poisoning, use to be an issue and use to be reported along with the virus du jor but, the problem was fixed and that is why we don't hear about DNS poisoning anymore. DNS unsafe! DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack' Get over yourself!
[October 26, 2005, 14:32]
Alarm Over 'pharming' Attacks
Talkback DNSSEC was designed to prevent cache poisoning attacks, but is not the end-all of security. Another solution on the horizon is DNS Security (DNSSEC). It is an extension to the DNS to include digital signatures to provide authentication and...
[February 24, 2005, 11:46]
Half Of DNS Servers Vulnerable To Attack
News Recursion can leave DNS systems vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning and amplification attacks that can "bring down major networks", said Infoblox. The security of DNS continues to be an issue for network administrators, despite the availability of...
[November 20, 2007, 12:37]
Hacker Cracks Apple Downloads
News Such techniques include DNS spoofing and DNS Cache Poisoning. One program listens for DNS queries for updates, and when it receives them replies with spoofed packets re-routing them to the attacker's computer.
[July 8, 2002, 16:27]
Apple Fixes Downloads Vulnerability
News Such techniques include DNS spoofing and DNS Cache Poisoning. One program listens for DNS queries for updates, and when it receives them replies with spoofed packets re-routing them to the attacker's computer.
[July 16, 2002, 10:23]
Linux/UNIX Threats: SANS Top 10
News Buffer overruns and cache poisoning are common attack vectors, and the various exploits mainly succeed because administrators fail to upgrade BIND to more secure versions or are running the BIND daemon ("named") unnecessarily -- it should not be...
[November 22, 2004, 12:10]
Symantec Admits To LiveUpdate Security Hole
News The DNS attacks.have been widely known to be an Internet infrastructure problem, not a Symantec product problem, for some time and have been utilised in many well-publicised DNS spoofing, redirection, cache poisoning attacks," reads the Symantec...
[October 11, 2001, 12:15]
Lycos Army Shoots Itself In Foot?
News The company said the hackers may have used DNS poisoning -- a method of Web site misdirection -- to fool users into thinking they had defaced the site, when in fact they were looking at an entirely different Web page.
[December 2, 2004, 16:30]
