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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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11/11/2016 | 8:32:10 AM
We used to authenticate documents with our signature on paper, generally using ball point pen
what method do we use on digital documents?
there won't be any progress until we generally adopt digital signatures. these are necessary to provide for verification of identity on digital documents -- such as -- e/mails, forms 1040, etc
we have traditional services that verify identities: banks, credit unions, DMV offices, Notary/Public, ---
we need to have these serivces offer also verification of PGP signatures and x.509 certificates.
2. secure operating software
we must insist on secure operating software. a secure o/s is one which will not permit itself to be updated with un-authorized programming -- and which protects its applications and data from un-authorized access.
the path is clear and marked but it is mainly an economic and administrative problem: the technology is available. not perfect -- but -- we have much better options available to us and we can continue to improves on these.