SAD DNS — New Flaws Re-Enable DNS Cache Poisoning Attacks

A group of academics from the University of California and Tsinghua University has uncovered a series of critical security flaws that could lead to a revival of DNS cache poisoning attacks. Dubbed "SAD DNS attack" (short for Side-channel AttackeD DNS), the technique makes it possible for a malicious actor to carry out an off-path attack, rerouting any traffic originally destined to a specific

from The Hacker News https://ift.tt/36v9xYi
via IFTTT