Black Ice reports "DNS Spoof Successful"? How Serious?

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Thu Mar 23 18:05:34 UTC 2000


On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:34:06AM +0000, David Cost wrote:
> Black Ice gave me the above report. Their site briefly says it involves
> redirecting users from my site to a target site of the intruder. Not sure
> how significant this is, and why it is done, as my site is not exactly "high
> volumne". Anyone with the ability to give more information on this attack
> would be greatly appreciated.
> -Tom

Never tried Black Ice on DNS.  But if you don't have 8.2.2-P5 running,
you may want to upgrade to get all the security fixes.  If you do this,
then please let the list know if Black Ice changes its mind.  ;-)

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