A cache poisoning attack occurs when an outside hacker creates a fake message that the DNS will accept, which can trick the server into delivering an incorrect request. The error, affecting numerous ...

There has been a long history of attacks on the Domain Name System ranging from brute-force denial-of-service attacks to targeted attacks requiring specialized software. In July 2008 a new DNS ...

The DNS server of one of China's largest ISPs has been poisoned to redirect typos to a malicious site rigged with drive-by exploits. According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the DNS ...

One of China’s largest ISPs (Internet service providers) has fallen victim to a dangerous vulnerability in the Internet’s addressing system, according to security vendor Websense. The flaw, which has ...

NS1, a domain name system (DNS) and traffic management provider, is taking on “DNS cache poisoning” attacks with new DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) capabilities built into its platform. DNS ...

More than 10 percent of the Internet’s DNS servers are still vulnerable to cache-poisoning attacks, according to a worldwide survey of public-facing Internet nameservers. That’s despite it being ...

In brief: Last year, Volexity detected and responded to an incident involving systems infected with malware linked to the Chinese hacking group StormBamboo. Initially, suspicions pointed to a ...

A team of researchers from UC Irvine and Tsinghua University has developed a new powerful cache poisoning attack named 'MaginotDNS,' that targets Conditional DNS (CDNS) resolvers and can compromise ...

Researchers at IoT security firm Nozomi Networks are warning that a popular library for the C programming language for IoT products is vulnerable to DNS cache-poisoning attacks. The bug is 10 years ...

Although Symantec released patches earlier this month for its Gateway Security 5300 and 5400 Series, the Windows and Solaris editions of its Symantec Enterprise Firewall, 7.0.x and 8.0, and its ...

There's a new type of attack taking place on the Internet and it may be dropping spyware, adware and other malicious code on your machine. The attack, first discovered by the SANS Internet Security ...