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| DNS Attack Writer a Victim of His Own Creation                     |
|   from the what-goes-around dept.                                  |
|   posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 30, @10:21 (Security)       |
|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/30/1242229 |
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BobB writes “HD Moore has been owned. Moore, the creator of the popular
Metasploit hacking toolkit, has [0]become the victim of a computer attack.
It happened on Tuesday morning, when Moore’s company, BreakingPoint, had
some of its Internet traffic redirected to a fake Google page that was
being run by a scammer. According to Moore, the hacker was able to do
this by launching what’s known as a cache poisoning attack on a DNS
server on AT&T’s network that was serving the Austin, Texas, area. One of
BreakingPoint’s servers was forwarding DNS (Domain Name System) traffic
to the AT&T server, so when it was compromised, so was HD Moore’s
company.”

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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/073008-dns-attack-writer-a-victim.html