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Canadian ISP Hijacking DNS Lookup Errors

Posted by Soulskill on from the both-hands-in-the-cookie-jar dept.

Freshly Exhumed tips us to news that Canadian ISP Rogers Cable appears to be redirecting invalid DNS requests to their own search and advertising page. Roadrunner got caught doing the same thing earlier this year. According to the article, "The hijacking appears to be an attempt by Rogers to use its Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to cash in on the mistakes of its users." Freshly Exhumed also reminds us, "As IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky has warned in the past, this presents a very serious security problem."

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  1. FWuck... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    obsessives and the FreeBSD because halt. Even Emacs be any fucking and sling Or table every day...Like a sad world. At bben sitting here hobby. It was all

  2. Re:easy solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Note that fudrucker did not care to mention that. Whenever a DNS manipulation story appears, it doesn't take long until an OpenDNS drone recommends OpenDNS, yet somehow they always "forget" that tidbit. People who follow those recommendations are swindled as much as users of ISPs who manipulate DNS.