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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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3/31/2014 | 8:02:10 PM
Passwords are not good, there just cheap. My MacBook Air Pro, due to flashram drives acheived 6 billion password combinations per second in August of 2013. This pretty much means passwords less than 12 places with full complexity have less than 50/50 odds to remain uncracked in less than 90 days.
Please send IT Auditors to me. I want to present what I have and am offerring a voluntary pledge. "I will never again claim that an 8 place password is an adequate security meaure." For those that must use only numbers in their passwords, 18 places are needed to compensate for the lack of complexity. At least, so says my Mac -- running a Windows 7 VM running John the Ripper at 6 Billion Combinations per Second, while the Mac side runs AV and edits word simultaniously.
You know, the second factor tool account password cracked and the full Pen Test Check Mate of their Domain Controller fell out rather quickly after that.
Yes, I would say that 8 place passwords are closer to public endangerment rather than InfoSec security.