Is Your DNS Cache Poisoned?
I just came across an article on Yahoo News and a very useful website on DoxPara Research about a secret mission that was collaborated by the software giants Microsoft, Sun and Cisco. The secret mission is all about a DNS vulnerability where hackers can gain world control – at least through the world wide web channel. Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher of IOActive, stumbled on this vulnerability a few months ago by accident and decided seek the help of these software giants to resolve this problem.
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Hackers can discover this vulnerability and take advantage of this. Basically, the user is fooled into providing personal information to phishing sites, instead of the real site that they have relied on. Phishing sites mimics the content and appearance of the real site.
To see if your computer is open to this vulnerability, DoxPara Research offers an online DNS checker that can check whether your computer is vulnerable to this DNS cache poisoning.
The secret patch was developed in secret for several months by major software and hardware companies. Microsoft has already released their patch recently among their Windows updates.
