Consider this: People went out of their way to create computer viruses, it's not a naturally ocuring digital-disease. Computers are naturally 'healthy'.
Perhaps people are also 'naturally healthy' and our species has created our own viruses mentally because of our need to have an advisary. It gives us something to fight against and grow.
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DNS is Flawed!!!
Patches alone won't suffice. This problem is part of the inherent vulnerability in the DNS. It sems the bad guys always find ways to circumvent these security patches: DNS Revolutions & Evolutions(http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=495&doc_id=158621&F_src=flftwo)
2nd page really necessary
Were 2 pages for this story really necessary? I'm glad they like to have us click through that one more time to read one more paragraph. I'm not meaning to rant, but the amount of information on this page of the story is so small.
LOL! The patcher is attacked by hackers...
LOL! The patcher is attacked by hackers. Funny thing.
S. Nilesh
www.itech7.com
ummm.... This guy wasn't
ummm.... This guy wasn't the the creator of the patch. He was the guy who publicly released the exploit into the wild.
If you're going to comment on irony, at least get your facts straight, because being owned when you're the one who publicly released the exploit is very ironic.
This story has been corrected by IDG
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/149136/dns_attack_writer_a_victim_of_his_own_creation.html?tk=rl_noinform
pwned! Even Cartman knows that.
pwned! Even Cartman knows that.
snoof.c/logicmoo
Google "snoof.c"
This exact exploit can be patched to return multiple answers so for example the snoof is going to use 5474564561 as the transaction ID for nasa.gov becasue it just used 5474564560 for mydomain.com. A patch will presend 1000s of answers with 5474564562,5474564564,etc.. This snoofing is over 10 years old.. Did somebody just add a better patch to it like the one described?
Time Warner, Too
I also got a report of this happening on Tuesday morning at a Time Warner customer in Austin. It was redirecting traffic for www.google.com to a website at hostmonster.com
You are so full of it!
First off, HD moore did not get pwned. Get the story right. His found that an upstream DNS server had been poisoned and was handing out a malicious i-frame for Google. The WHOLE story is on his blog. Read that and then you will see that this story is wrong.
Robert McMillan you should feel ashamed for reporting this story.
Next, the exploit was being talked about online and it was just a matter of time before the POC hit the web. Moore decided to get it tooled up for the metasploit framework so pen testers and security teams could test there systems. Yes, I know haxors can use the same tools for evil, but that is true with anything.
Report that facts McMillan!
the point
The point is that justice is served, not about HD's technical prowess and whether he personally was 'pwned' or not. Karma dude, that's all I'm saying.
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