DNS vulnerability used by hackers

Date: April 14, 2007
Source: networkworld.com


A DNS server compromised by a hacker could be used to funnel Web surfers to all sorts of phishing attacks and malicious Web sites and even cause havoc with directory services and e-mail in some cases, according to the father of the technology, Paul Mockapetris.

“Once you control the DNS server, you have license to do phishing and farming attacks and mislead all the users of that DNS server,” says Mockapetris, who in 1983 proposed the Domain Name System (DNS) architecture and is acknowledged, along with the late Jon Postel, as the technology’s inventor.
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