Archive for 'Security'
DNS Spoofing with Ettercap
IronGeek demonstrates the dns_spoof plugin for Ettercap and shows how easily domain names can be redirected by an attacker on your network.
In this video I’ll show how to use the Ettercap plugin dns_spoof to set up DNS spoofing on the local area network. This Ettercap plugin is only one potential way to pull off DNS [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2008 under Articles, Security.
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NSA DNS Outage
Did anyone notice the NSA’s DNS outage last month?
Posted: June 9th, 2008 under Outages, Security.
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Social Engineering DNS
Two teenage “hackers” take control of comcast.net:
The hackers say the attack began Tuesday, when the pair used a combination of social engineering and a technical hack to get into Comcast’s domain management console at Network Solutions. They declined to detail their technique, but said it relied on a flaw at the Virginia-based domain registrar.
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The hackers [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2008 under Articles, Registrars, Security.
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