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Everything You Need to Know About DNS AttacksIt's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask.
Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted.
Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
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User Rank: Ninja
7/12/2012 | 5:42:54 PM
People
have to be aware of the digital identity that they already have on the web Furthermore
they need to be aware that your digital identity contains all your basic
information; comments, political views, personal views, employer, and family life.
Take for example your Facebook profile it contains name, location, birthday,
and places of study or employment. Kellerman makes a great point; this particular
group is using them to gain financial information, but what about this sort of
attack being used for something other than gaining financial information?-á LetGÇÖs hope that GÇÿblast phishingGÇÖ or GÇÿdynamite
phishing does not become an all too familiar term!
Is there any preventive measures
that user can take to help safeguard themselves against these sort of attacks
in the future?
Paul
Sprague
InformationWeek
Contributor