DNS hack leaves corporate networks wide open. This is the typical story floating around the net about a now openly discussed hack to the DNS system that can be exploited by bad people. But here is the backchannel chatter that is probably more interesting.
Yet another thing that needs fixing.
And there is always Doxpara Research for the really wild stuff. Maybe we should just shut down the net now! Before it’s too late.
By the way, there has been a lot of chit-chat about white hat and black hat hackers. What does it all mean? If you need to know, the black hat hackers are SF Giants fans. The white hat hackers are fans of the 1970’s Oaklands A’s and believe that was the best team in modern history. There are also gray hat hackers. These are folks who ALWAYS root for the visiting team no matter where they are. Now you know.
Shut down the net John. It’s not like there’s a switch someplace. I’m not sure you could do if you wanted to, besides it’s never too late. Microsoft just released another service pack, so this should help make everything run smoothly until who knows what. Have you figured out any of your EULA’s yet? I think they are written in some dead language that comes from Latin, that was translated into French and is written in English, buy you need to understand Latin or you are completely lost. It’s like a legal code of some kind, but you can’t make heads or tails out of it. Once you agree to these terms, the software is unscrambled and works until the next upgrade is due.
Thought white hats were SF Niners fans & the Black hats were the Raiders.
Hmm. I pulled a “Really Wild Stuff” out of John Dvorak. The little piece of me that remembers reading Dvorak’s Last Column in Microtimes just giggled.
For what it’s worth — DNS comes from a much more innocent era, when IP was actually allowed to be a globally addressable number space and firewalls only stopped actual fires. There’s a few leftovers from its heritage; I’m just pointing them out.