Security Researcher Kaminsky Pushes DNS Patching 57
BobB-nw writes "Dan Kaminsky, who for years was ambivalent about securing DNS, has become an ardent supporter of DNS Security Extensions.
Speaking at the Black Hat DC 2009 conference Thursday, the prominent security researcher told the audience that the lack of DNS security not only makes the Internet vulnerable, but is also crippling the scalability of important security technologies. 'DNS is pretty much our only way to scale systems across organizational boundaries, and because it is insecure it's infecting everything else that uses' DNS, the fundamental Internet protocol that provides an IP address for a given domain name, said Kaminsky, director of penetration testing at IOActive. 'The only group that has actually avoided DNS because it's insecure are security technologies, and therefore those technologies aren't scaling.'"
Job title (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One trick pony (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Job title (Score:3, Funny)
Bombardier?
Re:Bad Article, Bad Summary (Score:4, Funny)
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... unfortunate salad
Re:Who is Dan Kaminsky (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who is Dan Kaminsky (Score:5, Funny)
His picture is available online, and he looks like a regular decent guy, for whatever that's worth.
Sorry, he's not attractive enough for me to consider him a network security expert (what the hell???)
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-1 Tasteless
says someone who chose the handle Penguinshit