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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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7/14/2015 | 11:25:06 AM
While you might be correct about getting those people (who absolutely live in Cyberspace) to do that very arduous task of "voting", which is a plus, it absolutely frightens the hell out of me that we as a society want to move in this direction. Why you ask... well I can go on for a while with multiple reasons but since this is a blog on information security I say this. We haven't proven that we can secure the simplest of data stored, connected to or traversing the Internet so why would we want to trust something as precious as our rights to determine our own future to these very technologies that have proven unequal to the task or more often, why should we trust people to maintain, manage and care for those systems in a responsible way? If the plan is to get more people to vote, then make the current system we have easier, but not by saying "since you don't want to leave the house you can vote on-line".
Personally, I think on-line voting is a major hack or even an inside job of biblical proportions just waiting to happen. But that's just me, I tend not to trust.