A story on DNS security from Dark Reading refers to comments by DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris who says, “The industry is just one multi-million-dollar corporate data breach away from waking up to the serious and often-silent threat of corrupted DNS resolution servers.” In this report, reports Dark Reading “Researchers David Dagon, Chris Lee, and Wenke Lee of Georgia Tech, and Google’s Niels Provos, dubbed the new threat ‘DNS resolution path corruption,’ where malicious DNS servers provide false information in order to send users to malicious sites. The researchers officially presented their findings today at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) in San Diego.”
Dark Reading goes on to note that “In their study of DNS resolution, they found around 17 million open-recursive DNS servers on the Net, and discovered that about .4 percent, or 68,000 of them, are performing malicious operations by answering DNS queries with false information that sends them to malicious sites. About 2 percent are returning suspicious results, they reported.”
To read all of the Dark Reading report, go to www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=145663
Another report on the study, “Phishing attacks could be undetectable” from Tech World is available from www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=11405
