Forwarded from: Crypto Admin <novembr5 (at) gmail.com> On 12/11/07, InfoSec News <alerts@private> wrote: > http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/11/DNS-attack-could-signal-Phishing-2.0_1.html > > By Robert McMillan > IDG News Service > December 11, 2007 > > Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are > studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls > where victims go on the Internet. Please read the comments on this article over at CircleID, where it is pointed out that the data does not support any difficulties with open recursive DNS servers, but rather with misconfigured DNS servers. Both David A. Ulevitch and Brett Watson make the points far better than I could. http://www.circleid.com/posts/malicious_open_recursive_dns_servers/ The authors of this report would have done themselves a favor, had they listened to their reviewers. __________________________________________________________________ Visit InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/
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