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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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7/27/2018 | 7:10:47 PM
This is a much more complex issue than the typical "voter fraud" component focused on just the voter registration elements. Even if a 100% accurate voter registration system was implemented where only valid U.S. Citizens could register, that element would miss the most urgent need for end-to-end audit trails, chain-of-custody records and appropriate background checks on those allowed access to voting machines and within the ballot processing system.
In Nevada, our citizens task force composed of professionals has worked for almost a decade trying to stimulate interest in "Trustworthy Elections" by all levels of government and by both political parties. Check out my profile for my past expertise.
We have demonstrated that "Untrusted Processing Systems, Self-Certification of Citizenship for Registration & Self-Audits by Secretaries of State Provide Untrustworthy Election Results!"
But, so far, we have been unable to get leading government officials to make any significant improvements. And, detected government failures and suspected fraud is never prosecuted by District Attorneys because they are prohibited from investigating the evidence.
Conduct a web search on "NevadansCAN elections integrity some voting machines allow remote access" to find some of our exhaustive research, documentation and Nevada court hearing records up through the Nevada Supreme Court on this vital issue.
We have tried often to amend Nevada statutes to require independent audits of the systems components before, during and after elections (proposed to be done by accredited members of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners), but leaders of both political parties at all levels have refused to cooperate. Imaginie if our society refused to have such certified fraud examiner reviews of banking records and government secrets! How could we trust the financial institutions?
Find some of our legislative video testimony by searching on YouTube with the words "elections integrity robert frank"
We have twice contested elections in state courts the results of the Nevada Elections System by following statutes and appealed one particularly improper ruling at the district level to the Nevada Supreme Court and been summarily dismissed.
The President's and Vice President's federal commission on elections integrity was sabotaged and had to be terminated because of opposition by both parties. The Federal Elections Commission and Elections Assistance Commission refuse to ensure that at least the federal elections are conducted on trustworthy systems and are independently audited by unconflicted fraud examiners.
Does anyone have a viable way to "fix" this problem of untrustworthy election systems? We have exhausted our list of possible ideas for action.
Robert Frank, Chair, NevadansCAN.com, Las Vegas, Nevada