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July 24th, 2008

AT&T iPhones exposed to DNS cache poisioning? Or not?

Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 12:31 pm

Categories: Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Browsers, Complex Attacks, Data theft, Metasploit, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Zero-day attacks

Tags: DNS, AT&T Corp., Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Here’s a photo of my iPhone after running Dan Kaminsky’s Doxpara DNS Checker tool a few minutes ago:

AT&T iPhones exposed to DNS cache poisioning?

I ran the same test at the DNS-OARC’s DNS checker and got this:  209.183.33.23 (schinetdns.mycingular.net) appears to have GREAT source port randomness and GREAT transcation ID randomness.

Strange.

Ryan NaraineRyan Naraine is a journalist and security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab. He manages Threatpost.com, a security news portal. Here is Ryan's full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.


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Hmm...funny last line
"Note: Comcast Users should not worry." ??? Why not? I dont believe they ever have taken a vested intrest in their customers (and their needs) in the past, i'll stick with OpenDNS. Thanks.... (Read the rest)
Posted by: JT82 Posted on: 07/25/08  (Edited: 07/25/08 @ 05:54) You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Try running his program with your computer  BALTHOR | 07/24/08
Correct Saying  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 07/24/08
Sorry AboveAverageJoe BALTHOR was right  iTeaBoy | 07/25/08
Hmm...funny last line  JT82 | 07/25/08

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