[dns-operations] "remotely changing a home router's DNS server was theoretically possible" (C|Net)

[Paul Ferguson]

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- -- Gadi Evron <gevron at ca.afilias.info> wrote:

>Paul Vixie wrote:
>> in <http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9855195-57.html> we see:

>I am unsure of what specific attack (malware?) they are talking about 
which is MX specific, but SYMC is good with PR. I am however 
increasingly concerned with the ease of compromising broadband routers.
>

Actually, we identified  this threat back on January 11th:

http://blog.trendmicro.com/targeted-attack-in-mexico-dns-poisoning-via-mode
ms/

- - ferg

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