Over 1 Million Domains at Risk of 'Sitting Ducks' Domain Hijacking Technique

Over a million domains are susceptible to takeover by malicious actors by means of what has been called a Sitting Ducks attack. The powerful attack vector, which exploits weaknesses in the domain name system DNS, is being exploited by over a dozen Russian-nexus cybercriminal actors to stealthily...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200807-08 (bind)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200807-08. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

BIND: Cache poisoning

Background ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocol. Description Dan Kaminsky of IOActive has reported a weakness in the DNS protocol related to insufficient randomness of DNS transaction IDs and query source ports. Impact An attacker could...