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Three Types of DNS Attacks and Their Effective Mitigation Strategies

The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacking group, altered the DNS records used by the New York Times, Twitter, and the Huffington Post. The changes forced one site offline and caused problems for the others. Here are three ways such attacks happen, and how they can be mitigated. DNS servers work by translating IP addresses into domain names. This is why you can enter CIO.com into the browser to visit our sister site, instead of trying to remember 65.221.110.97. When DNS is compromised, several things can happen. However, compromised DNS servers are often used by attackers one of two ways. The first thing an attacker can do is redirect all incoming traffic to a server of their choosing. This enables them to launch additional attacks, or collect traffic logs that contain sensitive information. The link for this article located at CSO Online is no longer available. . DNS servers work by translating IP addresses into domain names. This is why you can enter CIO.com in. syrian, electronic, pro-assad, hacking, group, altered, records. . Alex

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Network Solutions DDoS Incident: DNS Server Outage Details

In the second attack of its kind in the past few days, Domain Name System (DNS) servers at Network Solutions Inc. were hit by a denial-of-service attack this afternoon, resulting in a brief performance degradation for customers, according to the company. The attacks, which started at around 2:20 p.m. EST, were targeted at the company’s WorldNIC name servers and resulted in a service degradation for about 25 minutes before the server was restored to normal, a spokeswoman for the company said. . A Network Solutions spokeswoman declined to say what measures the Herndon, Va.-based company took to mitigate the attack. Over the weekend, Joker.com, a domain-name registrar in Germany, was hit with a similar distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that disrupted service to customers. In an advisory posted on its site, Joker said that “massive The link for this article located at ComputerWorld is no longer available. . A Network Solutions spokeswoman declined to say what measures the Herndon, Va.-based company took to. second, attack, domain, system, (dns), servers, network. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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