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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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8/17/2019 | 7:54:52 AM
One of the other options I mentioned below (from the quote in our earlier discussion) would be to add a token to the site, this would allow the browser to determine if the site was valid by using a SHA256 hash, site descriptor, and purpose all built into this number. This could be used to ensure the site is not a compromised site or if it is a site they have visited before, the browser would determine that much in the same way we use certificates.
For me, I go to a few sites on a regular for personal and business purposes. There are others but this would help to address the security issue, not all but at least some aspects). Also, we need to start migrating the DNS environment to specifically use DNSSEC and move away from IPv4. This would be much harder for hackers to penetrate defenses because we would secure DNS traffic, reduce MITM attacks, create truly secure connections using IPSec VPN AES256 connections (all built into the protocol - IPv6). We can start identifying where the attack derived from (1-to-1 connections using IPv6) and the token would help to validate the site with the help of ML (I wanted to reiterate the point listed below because ML was only one of the points brought up in the beginning phases of the discussion).
Tokenization is the future of business and personal transactions. Blockchain is looking into that as well.
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