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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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11/15/2018 | 12:45:50 PM
I am just curious, how do you go about improving the human element when employees don't really seem to get or understand cybersecurity. They think if they keep their head down and remain quiet, then they won't draw any attention to themselves.
I will give you an example, if someone is working with their head down and they are in accounting. They click on a link and the link says that they owe money to a vendor. The email came from the vendor but it was a phishing attack (the person's email account list was exposed to the hacker) where the pdf and link to update the banking information caused the person from accouting to act. Now this person has been trained for over 20 yrs in the area of security from this organization but thought this was a valid transaction. The amount of money from a realistic perspective may not have been alot, but this still happened.
To a trained engineer, they would have caught the mispelling of the name, the dns name not being corect or the address and pdf information being somewhat off.
But to the regular joe, this seemed reasonable. I am not sure if we can totally protect against this type of attack. I do agree there are certain things we need to do in order to mitigate the attacks but within a group of people that could range from 1K - 1M in number, with different skill sets, then I am not sure how you can defend against this type of attack. Threre needs to be some sort of AI/ML (Machine Learning) integration that assists the user in making the right decision because hacks continue to take place everyday even with controls and policies in place.
There is another discussion that could piggy back off of this discussion, the gap b/t the "haves" and "have nots". At the end of the day, people steal for three reasons, for political, economic and/or respect (just to show that they could do it). What we need to focus on is the psychological aspects of our society, there is an intrinsic problem with the way we think, because everyone has a breaking point and if pushed hard enough, every person will go down that path. Remember, for some people, it may not be about money, it could be that they need a specific drug for a parent or loved one, a child is suffereing or does not get into the school of choice.
Just remember, our society is delicate and if it is swayed one way or the other could cause catastrophic wave that effects everyone, the deep problem is not the hack, it is the way the way we think and how we think that needs to change.
Todd