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July 31, 2008

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Delicious DNS irony

Posted Jul. 31, ’08, 5:54 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Security

As much as security researchers provide a valuable service to the community, sometimes you wish they’d have to deal with the mess that they create. If you’ve daydreamed about this idea, your day has come.

HD Moore authored an attack that allows someone to poison DNS servers into returning the wrong IP address for a particular domain name. He didn’t anticipate that he’d end up enabling someone to attack him apparently.

Now he’s one of the first victims of such an attack. “It’s funny,” he said. “I got owned.”

Yes, that is funny. His Google page got replaced with one that contained a series of ads. Of course, now his ISP, along with many others, get to clean up the problem. I suppose that’s funny too.


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