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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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9/19/2016 | 9:35:39 PM
As we sit hear reading this article, after reading yet another artical on the lastest of DDOS attacks and ransomware demands, one has to wonder why anyone would ever by anything even connected with IoT (internet of things).
My fear is that this kind of thing will be forced onto us. Everything will be IoT , with no way to turn it off.
In Canada , in Ontario , for example , it is the law that you have to have a fire alarm in the apartment. And those things are just a speaker , a circuit board with a few chips, and a line heading out to the central machine downstairs. We have no idea what those chips do. And looking it up in a book just tells us what they want us to think. And looking at the label reading "made in the USA" doesn't inspire us with confidence. As far as we know they put a listening device in every apartment in Canada.
Paranoid ? Maybe before Edward Snowden it was. But it is technically possible, and NSA is going on about how it wants to gather all data everywhere.
Even the regular internet is becoming increasingly unstable. IoT has a dark future indeed.