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Source: The Register - Posted by Jen Olson
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In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) swept aside most of its scheduled agenda to explore its options in shoring up the security of the Internet's domain name system (DNS), . . .
In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) swept aside most of its scheduled agenda to explore its options in shoring up the security of the Internet's domain name system (DNS), the infrastructure that invisibly translates domain names like www.securityfocus.com to Internet IP addresses like 66.38.151.125. In a beachside hotel venue secured by plainclothes guards sporting Secret Service-style earpieces, researchers labored Tuesday and Wednesday to explain in excruciating detail the DNS' vulnerability to spoofing, cache poisoning and other, more exotic attacks that hackers have already used to divert traffic from victims' Web sites. "A hacked web page appears, even though victim site was untouched," said NAI Labs' Edward Lewis on a Tuesday panel. "That is by far the most important impact of an attack on DNS"
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