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Explorations in namespace: white-hat hacking across the domain name system
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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 49 ,  Issue 6  (June 2006) table of contents
Hacking and innovation
SPECIAL ISSUE: Hacking and innovation table of contents
Pages: 62 - 69  
Year of Publication: 2006
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Dan Kaminsky  DoxPara Research, Seattle, WA
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

DNS cache scanning across a sample set of more than 500,000 name servers revealed the extent of last year's Sony rootkit infestation on client machines.


REFERENCES

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Grangeia, L. DNS Cache Snooping for Fun and Profit. White paper, Feb. 2004; www.rootsecure.net/content/downloads/pdf/dns_cache_snooping.pdf.

CITED BY
Hüseyin Akcan , Torsten Suel , Hervé Brönnimann, Geographic web usage estimation by monitoring DNS caches, Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web, p.85-92, April 22-22, 2008, Beijing, China

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.6 Security and Protection

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.0 General

  D. Software
  D.0 GENERAL

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.4 Electronic Commerce
  K.5 LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.5 Security and Protection (D.4.6, K.4.2)
  K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
      K.7.4 Professional Ethics


REVIEW

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Kaminsky, a well-known white-hat hacker and domain name system (DNS) security specialist, presents a case for extended white-hat hacks in this article, particularly DNS scans, by describing two recent attacks by black-hat hackers. It is a short bu  more...

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