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U.S. Government Issues Urgent Warning of DNS Attacks

by Prof. Dr. Athir Muharib Al-Suhairi | د. أثير محارب السهيريCloud Security, DNS, Web Security January 23, 2019Comments are Disabled

An emergency directive from the Department of Homeland Security provides “required actions” for U.S. government agencies to prevent widespread DNS hijacking attacks. The Department of Homeland Security is ordering all federal agencies to urgently audit Domain Name System (DNS) security for their domains in the next 10 business days. The department’s rare “emergency directive,” issued …

Microsoft patches critical Windows DNS client vulnerabilities

by Prof. Dr. Athir Muharib Al-Suhairi | د. أثير محارب السهيريDNS October 10, 2017November 28, 2022No Comments

Three critical Windows DNS client vulnerabilities were patched today by Microsoft, closing off an avenue where an attacker could relatively simply respond to DNS queries with malicious code and gain arbitrary code execution on Windows clients or Windows Server installations. The flaws were discovered and privately disclosed to Microsoft by researcher Nick Freeman at Bishop …