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Protection from DNS attacks? o_O

Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by WonderBread, Aug 27, 2008.

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Ok, so some flaw in the DNS system makes it where someone can redirect you to malicious sites or something. Well this new Firefox extension called Perspectives is supposed to protect you from these DNS attacks. Would this be good to download? Here's some links to an article about it and the official website thing. o.o

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/index.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10026617-83.html?tag=mncol;title
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10022303-83.html?tag=mncol;txt

Are DNS attacks anything to worry about?

WonderBread, Aug 27, 2008

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Change all your passwords.

This DNS attack are just cloaked redirects to a fake site. It steals your credentials when you type it in.

The banking industry would have been the first ones to be hit.

flipfire, Aug 27, 2008

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Thanks for the links posted!

The DNS flaw is well known now and patches have been/are worked on.

You can check the DNS server you use with DNS checker on Dan Kaminsky's website.
Or use this link to entropy.dns-oarc.net/test.

Baserk, Aug 27, 2008

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