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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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User Rank: Ninja
5/27/2013 | 8:38:34 PM
the security of your system seriously this day in age then you are not reading
the news and all the current breeches that are occurring. Most of the current
attacks are due to uninformed employees who answer these phishing emails. I agree
that with proper training an employee could spot a potentially dangerous email.
TwitterGÇÖs recommendation of using a single node in the office is not at all
realistic.at the very least look at emails more cautiously because they are now
aware of the threats that exist. This also touches on the extent that Twitter is
liable for. If a user is careless with their credentials and lacks the knowledge
to protect their own systems, then I do not believe that is TwitterGÇÖs responsibility.
Paul Sprague
InformationWeek Contributor