A security researcher Tuesday at the RSA Conference is going to demonstrate how routers from Linksys and other manufacturers can be abused by attackers to penetrate firewalls. According to a story by the IDG News Service, Dan Kaminsky has spent the past year studying how design flaws in the way that browsers work with the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) can be manipulated in this way.

According to the story:

The technique, called a DNS rebinding attack, would work on virtually any device, including printers, that uses a default password and a Web-based administration interface, said Kaminsky, who is director of penetration testing with IOActive.

Although security researchers had known that this type of hack was theoretically possible, Kaminsky's demo will show that it can work in the real world, the story adds.

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