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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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3/28/2014 | 4:38:37 PM
Correct me if I am mistaken but it seems that these machines are in an administrative state for routine/emergency maintenance and its only the physical barrier that truly denies access to the kingdom. But as knights circumvent a moat, people have gotten past this safeguard and are tasking the machine with minimal intrusion.
One comment I saw on a forum regarding Ploutus, though cynical, carried some truth. You can't leave a machine in root status and expect it not to perform root tasks.
As delineated in your article, banks are now undergoing expensive counter procedures to smooth out this issue. But that is more of a reactive approach and therefore a huge security flaw. It needs to be realized that security is most effective when handled pre-emptively. For whatever reason, these machines were left in a vulnerable state with only a thin physical layer to keep people out. What are other peoples thoughts regarding the ATM "hacks"?