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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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8/7/2018 | 1:27:58 PM
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Want a good way to test your people's ability to recognize a social engineering attack? Have them watch the political ads in this election cycle. If they can't spot all the techniques used to manipulate perceptions there, they wouldn't know an SE attack if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsicord singing "Social engineering attacks are here again!" (to paraphrase Edmond Blackadder).