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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
12/8/2016 | 12:42:00 PM
Not to discount my statement that there must be more options, which I'm starting to talk myself out of, but how about from another angle in which (at least in the US) we provide more protection to White/Grey Hat (ethical) hackers who can actually help through offensive cybersecurity tactics? Get funds into tactical cybersecurity teams who not only can help, but are willing to put their best efforts forward in analyzing, profiling and attacking hackers and their teams in such a way that they are either quickly found by on-the-ground law enforcement teams, or can't get the resources they need online to perform their hacks. Not to make a standard Hollywood image of the offensive hacker team seem realistic and easy to put together, but come on, there is a level of reality to this option that is hampered in large part by fear of prison due to our nation's archaic and frankly ill-informed computer-related laws.
I just feel there needs to be a big leap, a massive impact, in order to get ahead of cybercrime; the must-dos and process changes noted here obviously are going to happen, but we need a wall to get raised somehow to help that work not go to waste.