Microsoft issues DNS poisoning advisory
News DNS cache poisoning involves the practice of hacking into domain name servers and replacing the numeric addresses of legitimate Web sites with the addresses of malicious sites. In early March, ISC first warned of DNS cache poisoning attacks that...
[April 8, 2005, 9:55]
DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack'
News DNS cache poisoning involves hacking into DNS servers and replacing the numeric addresses of legitimate Web sites with the addresses of malicious sites. If these servers are used in a setup where they are used as forwarders then it is possible to...
[October 25, 2005, 17:55]
Oxford Handbook of Medicine, 7/e
Downloads New to this Edition: New topics on Acetaminophen Poisoning, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Cyclospora Diarrhea, Functional Diarrhea, Methemoglobinemia, Rotavirus, Salicylate Poisoning (Aspirin) The latest treatment recommendations for SARS and other...
[August 3, 2007, 8:00]
Oxford Handbook of Medicine, 7/e
Downloads New to this Edition: New topics on Acetaminophen Poisoning, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Cyclospora Diarrhea, Functional Diarrhea, Methemoglobinemia, Rotavirus, Salicylate Poisoning (Aspirin) The latest treatment recommendations for SARS and other...
[August 3, 2007, 8:00]
Researcher attempts to unravel Kaminsky DNS flaw
News Flake's approach combines query-identifier spoofing with records-referral set poisoning, meaning it could overcome methods for countering both types of attack. It is possible to spoof query identifiers and use them in DNS cache poisoning.
[July 22, 2008, 17:43]
Alarm over 'pharming' attacks review
Reviews Rather than spamming you with email requests, pharmers work quietly in the background, 'poisoning' your local DNS server by redirecting your Web request somewhere else. DNS poisoning But DNS poisoning is a whole different kettle of fish (so to...
[February 21, 2005, 9:35]
Attack code released for Kaminsky DNS flaw
News Up until now, bailiwick constraints were a security safeguard designed to stop a certain kind of DNS poisoning: RRset poisoning. The attacker sets up a web page with tags that point to a compromised nameserver.
[July 24, 2008, 15:39]
Google launches Public DNS
News Google Public DNS does not support DNS security extensions (DNSSEC), a protocol that guarantees the integrity of DNS data and prevents cache poisoning — a vulnerability in DNS where attackers can insert misdirection information that hijacks user...
[December 4, 2009, 14:18]
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]
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]
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]
Apple fixes downloads vulnerability
News Such techniques include DNS spoofing and DNS Cache Poisoning. Apple's download is available to systems running Mac OS X 10.1 or later, via the Software Update system itself or Apple's Web site. The secure Web page includes optional instructions for...
[July 16, 2002, 10:23]
Safety experts meet in Cyberspace
News The latter ranges from asbestos poisoning to the more extreme dangers of rape and kidnapping. An international Web conference involves a far greater numbers and saves people from jetting in or driving.
[November 2, 1998, 11:35]
Hacker cracks Apple downloads
News Such techniques include DNS spoofing and DNS Cache Poisoning. As you can see, with no authentication, it is trivial to impersonate the Apple servers," wrote Harding on his Web site. Apple Mac users could be unwittingly downloading and updating...
[July 8, 2002, 16:27]
The Net: A Web of hatred?
News The report, Poisoning the Web: Hatred Online, offers a laundry list of unsavoury online characters, from Holocaust "revisionists" to a California student whose increasingly popular Web site advocates the destruction of New York City -- and along...
[June 24, 1999, 10:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The latest fuss is over the order to Microsoft to make streaming media applications, Web browser and other bits and pieces removable in order to stop poisoning the market for such things. Thursday 11/04/2002
[April 12, 2002, 18:07]
Kaminsky reveals details and extent of DNS flaw
News In a presentation given at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Kaminsky gave details of how a successful DNS cache poisoning attack could be launched by taking advantage of the flaw.
[August 7, 2008, 14:46]
Motorola fights on in ultrawideband battle
News The only reason would be to lock the market down and force people to live with their solution, poisoning the market for the wider range of solutions. You don't create a standard just by putting up a Web site with 70 logos on it.
[March 5, 2004, 9:10]
Icann: Coders and ISPs vital to net security
News Twomey said DNSSEC deployment would mitigate DNS cache poisoning, in which users are unwittingly redirected to fake internet sites. Developers and internet service providers will need to participate if the encryption of a fundamental internet...
[June 8, 2009, 17:17]
