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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
6/25/2014 | 8:34:44 AM
THINK: when you use your card: you are NOT authorizing ONE transaction: you are giving the merchant INDEFINITE UNRESTRICTED access to your account.
if the merchant is hacked the card numbers are then sold on the black market. hackers then prepare bogus cards -- with real customer numbers -- and then send "mules" out to purchase high value items -- that can be resold
it's a rough way to scam cash and the "mules" are most likely to get caught -- not the hackers who compromised the merchants' systems .
The POST will need to be re-designed to accept customer "Smart Cards"
The Customer Smart Card will need an on-board processor, -- with PGP
When the customer presents the card it DOES NOT send the customer's card number to the POST. Instead, the POST will submit an INVOICE to the customer's card. On customer approval the customer's card will encrypt the invoice together with authorization for payment to the PCI ( Payment Card Industry Card Service Center ) for processing and forward the cipher text to the POST
Neither the POST nor the merchant's computer can read the authorizing message because it is PGP encrypted for the PCI service. Therefore the merchant's POST must forward the authorizing message cipher text to the PCI service center.
On approval the PCI Service Center will return an approval note to the POST and an EFT from the customer's account to the merchant's account.
The POST will then print the PAID invoice. The customer picks up the merchandise and the transaction is complete.
The merchant never knows who the customer was: the merchant never has ANY of the customer's PII data.
Cards are NOT updated. They are DISPOSABLE and are replaced at least once a year -- when the PGP signatures are set to expire. Note that PGP signatures can also be REVOKED if the card is lost.
Transactions are Serialized using a Transaction Number ( like a check number ) plus date and time of origination. This to prevent re-use of transactions. A transaction authorizes one payment only not a cash flow.
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