DNS Poisoning and Mal-ads?
After publishing our SMS notification and sending our newsletter subscribers notice to patch, I thought about something that may or may not be related.
The entire tech world is a buzz after the unintentional leak of security researcher Dan Kaminsky’s blog post about the vulnerability in the DNS. The frenzy has been created because the vulnerability is now in the wild. It’s out there. Exploitable on any unpatched system.
While talking about this with my marketing guru, I was explaining to him how this looks so much like what happened to him that prompted our publishing the Mal-ads report on June 15th. While he acted quickly in stopping the scan by closing all the browsers, his DNS cache was poisoned and he only noticed it because he kept getting redirected to YouTube in Italy. (He doesn’t surf much right now because of our celebration planning!)
I had to clear his cache before his browser would start working correctly.
So, I’m putting it out there….. is it possible that this mal-ad could have been exploiting this already?
Something to think about!
Comments welcome!
Debbie
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