DNS Flaw Underscores Danger of taking Web Security for Granted

Posted: 119 days ago

The impact of the DNS protocol flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky is much wider than previously thought, endangering the trust many of us take for granted. The DNS flaw went beyond cache poisoning to target File Transfer Protocol and Secure Sockets Layer certificates. - Perhaps more than any other flaw in the last several years, the DNS protocol vulnerability discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky has shown that the circle of trust on the Internet can be broken easier than we feared. After listening to Kaminskys talk today at the Black Hat conference in L...