DDoS attacks have been a persistent problem for the the better part of 20 years, and as ISPs and enterprises have adjusted their defenses, attackers have adapted their tactics. One of the more effective tools in the attackers’ arsenal now is the use of botnets to generate massive numbers of DNS queries for a target […]
Tag Archives: DNSSEC
Kaminsky: DNS Insecurity Isn’t Coincidence, it’s Consequence
Dan Kaminsky insisted that there’s a cost to doing security crypto through DNS at Kaspersky Lab’s 2015 Security Analyst Summit Monday.
Small Signs of Progress on DNSSEC
SEATTLE–DNS doesn’t have a lot of friends. It’s old, it’s kind of creaky and it has some insecurity issues. The few friends it has have tried to help it out in the last few years with the addition of DNSSEC, but that hasn’t gone so well, either. The Internet hasn’t been quick to adopt DNSSEC, […]