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Spear phishing led to DNS attack against New York Times, Twitter, others
2013-08-28 17:26:40| InfoWorld: Top News
The cyber attack that resulted in nytimes.com and some other high-profile websites being inaccessible to a large number of users Tuesday started with a targeted phishing attack against a reseller for Melbourne IT, an Australian domain registrar and IT services company.
LinkedIn suffers site outage due to 'DNS issue'
2013-06-20 06:35:51| CNET News.com
The business networking site's home page is replaced by a domain sales page for about an hour. [Read more]
Possibly related DDoS attacks cause DNS hosting outages
2013-06-04 23:08:32| InfoWorld: Top News
DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks that could be related have in the past few days slammed the DNS servers of at least three providers of domain name management and DNS hosting services. DNSimple, easyDNS, and TPP Wholesale all reported temporary DNS service outages and degradation on Monday, citing DDoS attacks as the reason. In some cases the attacks started a few days ago and are ongoing.
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Fix your DNS servers or risk aiding DDoS attacks
2013-04-01 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Although this week's large-scale DDoS attack against Spamhaus may
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Critical denial-of-service flaw in BIND software puts DNS servers at risk
2013-03-29 19:02:19| InfoWorld: Top News
A flaw in the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers and affect the operation of other programs running on the same machines.
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