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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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3/17/2015 | 9:34:47 PM
You have rights as a customer of organizations which failed basic security in their infrastructure. Basic prevention techniques could have made exploitation much more difficult. Do you think 1 year of credit monitoring will fully protect you? The answer it is not even remotely close to even the basic protection required. Identify theft may be the least of their worries. In some of these cases there are bank account numbers floating around.
This is getting to be a major confidence issue on the banking system.
At a minimum, I feel lifetime credit protection should be mandated, and the ability to pay for lifetime credit locks. That is the absolute most basic thing they should pay. What would that cost? Well, to lock credit reports is $5 or more for each one (at this time). In addition, if you want a loan or needed a credit check, you have to pay for unlocks. Is it your fault you need that unlock? Demand an adequate amount of money to pay for lifetime credit locks and unlocks and credit monitoring. Even with credit locks, the credit is opened for a window of time where others could exploit it. This is serious and corporations shouldn't be trying to weasel their way out of their liability by offering one year of credit monitoring.