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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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6/24/2017 | 9:28:32 AM
In a lot of cases your are definitely right, but just saying most is fiction is, for me, too simple.
There are a lot of examples: shuting down parts of the power grid, hack a car, hack home appliances, nuclear production manipulation, steel plant manipulation, hacks of ATMs with million dollar gains, manipulate ICS systems, take over railway control systems....
All in all in always is a question from which perspective you look on a hack and what is the real gain for a hacker.
This is sometimes not obvious, but if you take a deeper look on it it is mostly obvious and logical even most people think "I don't care if someone hacks my mew smart fridge".