Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment What about DNS Cache Snooping? (Score 4, Interesting) 170

DNS Cache Spoofing is not the only nasty trick available to DNS hackers; There is a (still) relatively unknown vulnerability afecting the vast majority of nameservers today, and one that is not easily resolved by patches alone.

Check out my paper about this, its called DNS Cache Snooping, and allows for a bunch of interesting tricks. It afects most of DNS Server/Cache combination implementations and is triggered by an extremely common misconfiguration, one that allows for the whole of the internet to use a given DNS server as their primary DNS server.

Luis Grangeia

Slashdot Top Deals

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

Working...