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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
5/2/2014 | 8:05:09 AM
authentication must be valid 1 time only: on the instant transaction. not like a cfredit card number which is used over, and over and over again.
authentication must be recognizable: i.e. it must be possible to verify who authored the authentication i.e. who made the signature. attacker cannot create forgeries.
authentication validates the integrity of the transaction it is affixed to. i.e. if attacker attempts to alter the transaction or substitute a different transaction he will invalidate the signature (integrity)
PGP or GnuPG provides these capabilitites as well as encryption (security). this is proven software; there is no need to re-invent the wheel. just learn to use it.
note
all computer security depends on a secure operating system. these are available although not commonly used.