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 ...

Every time a user types a website URL into their browser, the browser checks a local file (DNS Cache) to see if there is an entry to resolve the website’s IP address. The browser needs the IP address ...

A team of researchers from UC Irvine and Tsinghua University has developed a new powerful cache poisoning attack named 'MaginotDNS,' that targets Conditional DNS (CDNS) resolvers and can compromise ...

The makers of BIND, the Internet’s most widely used software for resolving domain names, are warning of two vulnerabilities that allow attackers to poison entire caches of results and send users to ...

The domain name system (DNS) is the backbone of the internet, but it’s also one of its biggest security blind spots. As a translator between user-friendly domain names and machine-friendly IP ...

If you've ignored the urge to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning flaw, you could be on the verge of big trouble: Exploit code has just been published in a popular penetration testing tool.In ...

InfoBlox has updated the software powering its DNS appliance on Monday, releasing version 4.3 r2. The new rev makes your DNS infrastructure more resistant to DNS cache poisoning attacks by detecting ...

When your company’s internet access, VoIP and email all depend on DNS, you have to ensure your DNS server is protected against DNS spoofing attacks. One solution: DNSSEC. Domain Name System (DNS) is ...

Yesterday, seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities were disclosed, collectively known as DNSPooq, that attackers can use to launch DNS Cache Poisoning, denial of service, and possibly remote code execution ...