"DNS Forgery Pharming" Attack Against BIND 9 105
Monley writes "Help Net Security is running a story about a severe flaw in BIND's implementation that allows fraudsters to efficiently predict generated random numbers without the need to control the route between the user and the DNS server. (Here are HTML and PDF versions of the paper.) Using this vulnerability, fraudsters can remotely forge DNS responses and direct users to fraudulent websites, which can steal the user's sign-in credentials and do other mischief. The flaw was discovered by security researcher and Trusteer's CTO, Amit Klein." The ISC has released a patch to BIND 9.
Again.... (Score:4, Funny)