http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hd-moore-owned-dns-flaw By Nick Farrell The Inquirer 31 July 2008 A STORY published by IDG claiming that the creator of the Metaploit hacking toolkit, H D Moore, had been caught by the Kaminsky DNS cache exploit, is a load of old pants. The story claimed that Moore's company, BreakingPoint, had some of its Internet traffic redirected to a fake Google page that was being run by a scammer. Moore was quoted as saying the hacker was able to do this by launching what's known as a cache poisoning attack on a DNS server on AT&T's network that was serving the Austin, Texas, area. However now Moore claims he was misquoted by the journalist in question. [...] _______________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA, August 2-7 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 40 hands-on training courses and 80 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 50 nations. Visit product displays by 30 top sponsors in a relaxed setting. http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Thu Jul 31 2008 - 02:12:10 PDT
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