China's largest ISP gets hit with a DNS cache poisoning attack

[thewayne]

This is an attack that the common user of the internet, i.e. you and me, are powerless to do anything about. The DNS system is what allows you to enter www.livejournal.com and have your page requests go to the IP address 204.9.177.18. If I can compromise the DNS system of your ISP, such as is happening in China right now, I control where www.livejournal.com resolves to, and I can send your browser to www.reallyhorriblemalware.com and I'd have a good chance of compromising your computer.

Fun times for running bot farms!

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/21/2343250

Comments

[silveradept]

Eww. Although, it makes sense to poison China, because they'd have the most potential for quickly getting zombies. I'm guessing that U.S. DNS servers are kept under fairly tight surveillance to check and make sure they're not being cache-poisoned, too, right?

...Right?