There has been a long history of attacks on the DNS ranging from brute-force denial-of-service attacks to targeted attacks requiring specialized software. In July 2008 a new DNS cache-poisoning attack ...

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Millions of devices could be vulnerable to Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning and remote code execution attacks due to seven security flaws in dnsmasq, DNS forwarding and caching software ...

The previously hypothetical DNS cache poisoning bug you've no doubt heard about has made its way into the wild. That isn't all that surprising given that there are no less than three publicly ...

The Internet Software Consortium has pulled the plug on support for Version 8 of the BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) DNS implementation after the discovery of a serious vulnerability that could ...

Researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of California have identified a new method that can be used to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks. The new discovery revives a 2008 bug that ...

“DNS is one of the fundamental and ancient protocols on the Internet that supports many network applications and services. Unfortunately, DNS was designed without security in mind and is subject to a ...

A vulnerability in the BIND domain name system (DNS) software could give an attacker the ability to easily and reliably control queried name servers chosen by the most widely deployed DNS software on ...

Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what is now a precious commodity: Your privacy. Read now Here's how it works: First, DNS is the internet's ...

As much as 38 percent of the Internet’s domain name lookup servers are vulnerable to a new attack that allows hackers to send victims to maliciously spoofed addresses masquerading as legitimate ...