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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
3/17/2013 | 1:03:04 AM
It is funny how quick
one will turn when faced when jail time. I think that SabuGÇÖs biggest contributions
to the Feds were not the people he rolled on, but exposing the unknown
vulnerabilities, and eliminating those threats. I like how it was pointed out
that it is individuals and not computers that are responsible for these
attacks. I believe that people associate computers with threats and vulnerabilities,
although responsible for some security flaws, it is the intent of a individual behind
the attacks. I understand that the Feds are responsible for arresting these
hackers, but it would have been nice to know they caught them through forensics
and not handed to them. That would have given me confidence in our defense,
actually catching them by detecting and investigating then tracing these attacks
to the individuals.
Paul Sprague
InformationWeek Contributor
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