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Ten Percent of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-our-back dept.

maotx writes "Even with the uproar caused by the recent DNS attacks, a recent study shows that roughly 10% of 2.5 million DNS servers show that they are still vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning. To put that a little bit more in perspective, of that 10% discovered, 230,000 were identified as potentially vulnerable, 60,000 are very likely to be open to this specific type of attack, and 13,000 have a cache that can definitely be poisoned." From the article: "The use of DNS cache poisoning to steal personal information from people by sending them to spoofed sites is a relatively new threat. Some security companies have called this technique pharming."

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  1. third post!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah

  2. Ooo la la by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    10% of your base are belong to me!

  3. Evolution by burtdub · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How can we best turn this into a debate on evolution?

    Golly, it sure seems like these DNS servers suffer from unintelligent design.

    FLAMEBAIT!