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DNS flaw for home users...
From: "Murda Mcloud" <murdamcloud () bigpond com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:16:20 +1000
With all the brouhaha surrounding the DNS flaw that Dan Kaminsky has hinted at and others have 'accidentally' disclosed or stumbled upon, what kind of advice would you be giving to home users? Obviously the whole push is towards patching and trying to do that before the evil ones work out how to create an exploit(maybe they already have <shrug>). But, that means home users are left to wonder whether their ISP has patched. What should they do? Ask their ISP? Try and run an exploit against their ISP's DNS?(joke...I'm joking..sheesh, lighten up). I've tried explaining it to some people here and used a simplified version of the deli ticket thing but people's eyes still glaze over. So...is it even worth me worrying? Is this a rhetorical post...? Yes, I know that the hole has been there for a long time and no-one (really)worried about it before etc etc.
Current thread:
- DNS flaw for home users... Murda Mcloud (Jul 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: DNS flaw for home users... Murda Mcloud (Jul 24)
- Re: DNS flaw for home users... Ayaz Ahmed Khan (Jul 27)
- RE: DNS flaw for home users... Petter Bruland (Jul 28)
- RE: DNS flaw for home users... Murda Mcloud (Jul 29)
- Re: DNS flaw for home users... Ayaz Ahmed Khan (Jul 27)