With the array of activity as of late surrounding Kaminsky’s DNS Cache Poisoning vulnerability, we checked some of our various data sources to get an idea of what folks are seeing activity-wise as a result - if anything discernible. There are three discrete data sources I had a look at in hopes of identifying [...]
Last week I posted a piece on the Internet Effects of the DNS bug disclosure, looking at a week’s worth of DNS traffic. Some folks had assumed massive patching and updates causing an uptick in DNS traffic (due to cache refreshes), and our Internet statistics revealed that we didn’t see any such traffic uptick. I [...]
We spent the past four and a half years (or so) in our location, a full floor of a downtown office building. We’re now bursting at the seams with staff, equipment, and our current space just wasn’t suiting us any longer. We spent the past few days packing up and organizing everything for a move [...]
Just under two weeks ago, on July 8, a vulnerability disclosure was released warning of multiple DNS implementations being susceptible to yet another new DNS cache poisoning attack, but one professed to be far worse than previous attacks. Dan Kaminsky, in cooperation of with a large number of well-respected security and DNS experts, and [...]
The website for the President of Georgia, a former Soviet republic, has come under DDoS (hat tip: Shadowserver team). This attack appears to have a political motivation. One of the messages in the floods (HTTP, SYN, ICMP) reads “win+love+in+Rusia”. Tensions between Russia and Georgia appear to be running high lately.
While I am not positive what [...]
