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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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1/30/2013 | 4:08:06 PM
Almost all "network capable" printers these days have the ability to be managed remotely using their embedded web server. While that makes it convenient to manage the printer by not having to physically use the printer's controls, it opens up Pandora's box in how a given printer can be exploited.
I would bet the farm that most individuals and SMB's buy a printer, stick it on their network, and never change the default password - which is well known. HP (in particular) is dreaming if they think most customers will take the time to download and use their management tools to secure the printer. This is/has not been top of mind for most companies.