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A DNS Exploit Is A Huge Risk That Can Disrupt The Internet

A cybercriminal who takes advantage of compromised credentials rather than having to hack a DNS server, warning a DNS expert, is what we call DNS-level attacks. This is getting popular in the cyber world. One interesting thing about attacks such as DNSpionage and Sea Turtle, Infoblox’s vice president of engineering, chief DNS architect and senior […]

WPAD Protocol Bug Puts Windows Users at Risk

WPAD name collision issue can lead to MitM attacks. US-CERT has issued a public alert after researchers from the University of Michigan and Verisign Labs discovered a method of leveraging the WAPD protocol to launch MitM (Man in the Middle) attacks against corporate networks. WAPD stands for Web Proxy Auto-Discovery and is a protocol used to […]