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Current Newswire: Sifting Through Billions and Billions of Bytes Miro 2.0 - Watch TV Podcasts and Videos in HD Hands off the Gimp Course: Using LDAP Bazaar for Subversion users, part 1 - the basics Firefox 3.5 - A Really Impressive Release Linux Migration Guide: Finding Linux Equivalents to Your Favorite Windows Programs Tiny Core Linux 2.1 Review 5 Top of the Line Twitter Desktop Clients for Linux SECURITY: How Microsoft benefits from Conficker Security Engineer (PA) Next Step Systems US-PA-Philadelphia Post A Job | Post A Resume Preventing DNS Poisoning in Linux Jul 12, 2008, 00 :00 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (7778 reads) (Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols) [ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ] "If you don't think the recent discovery of the DNS cache-poisoning flaw is bad news and needs to be addressed as soon as possible, let me repeat what Paul Mockapetris, DNS' (Domain Name System) inventor, had to say about this security hole: Patch your DNS servers right now. "CERT can tell you about the technical details of DNS cache-poisoning, here's what an attack on a DNS server can mean to you according to Dan Kaminsky, a researcher at security services firm IOActive: The vulnerability could allow attackers to redirect Web traffic and e-mails to systems under their control..." Complete Story Related Stories: Patches Coming Today for DNS Vulnerability(Jul 09, 2008) In Latest Release, Nmap Looks Better than Ever(Feb 07, 2008) OpenDNS Provides Added Safety for Free(Dec 18, 2007) Restricting zone transfers with IP addresses in BIND DNS Server(Oct 16, 2007) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Practice-less technology, rather.    Rainer Weikusat Jul 12, 2008, 07:32:22     Just use DNSSEC or SSL    Sean Kerner Jul 14, 2008, 13:28:44     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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