The news out of Brazil is not good. An attack that was recently launched against the major ISPs in the country has resulted in 4.5 million DSL modem / routers hacked. This has left a large portion of the Brazilian population with unreliable internet service. The attack came about because of a vulnerability in the […]
On November 9, 2011, as part of “Operation Ghost Click” (a collaborative investigation into the operation), the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced charges against six Estonian nationals and one Russian national connected to DNSChanger and Rove Digital for wire fraud, computer intrusion, and conspiracy. Arrests were made by Estonian […]
We’re always very wary of hackers redirecting our DNS searches to servers that they control. DNS is a critically important part of the internet process, and by having others muck around in it and use it to their advantage, we’re all being put at risk. There’s a very clear definition for how DNS should work, […]
Okay, quick quiz: Let’s say that you’ve disabled Remote Administration on your router. How can an attacker gain access to the router’s administrator interface from across the internet to try to guess the password and break in? Answer: Trick question! There’s no way to you can see the administrator interface from the internet side of […]