It’s been a few weeks since [Dan Kaminsky] announced the nature of the DNS vulnerability and allowed 30 days of non-disclosure for patches to be applied before details of the exploit went public. Unfortunately, the details were leaked early and it didn’t take long for a functional exploit to be released into the wild. Since then, many ISPs have … Read the rest
Securing DNS on OSX
July 31, 2008 By 5 Comments
Malware alters DNS data on routers
June 12, 2008 By 7 Comments
The Zlob trojan, also known as DNSChanger, has been around for a few years, but recent Zlob variants to appear in the wild attempt to log into routers using a list of default admin/password combos. If they succeed, they alter the DNS records on the router to reroute traffic through the attacker’s server.
Our friend [Dan Kaminisky] recently did a … Read the rest
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