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DNS cache poison attacks in the wild
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Aug 22 17:54:42 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:53:17 -0400
There have been other earlier reports, but the neat thing about this
one is that the attackers went for the DNS record for the ISP's own
crappy "that domain doesn't exist, here, have some ads instead" web
page.
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3163.aspx
Hat tip: Bill Squier
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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