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December 7th, 2008, 05:42 PM
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Mass DNS Hijacks
Researchers have identified a new trojan that can tamper with a wide array of devices on a local network, an exploit that sends them to impostor websites even if they are hardened machines that are fully patched or run non-Windows operating systems.
Article is here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12...anger_hijacks/
According to researchers with anti-virus provider McAfee's Avert Labs, the update allows a single infected machine to pollute the DNS settings of potentially hundreds of other devices running on the same local area network by undermining its dynamic host configuration protocol, or DHCP, which dynamically allocates IP addresses.
And a jolly good time was had by all
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