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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Exploit for DNS Cache Poisoning - RELEASED
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:01:11PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >> https://www.paypal.com/ > > That did not even occur to me. > > Anyone have a foolproof way to get grandma to always put "https://"; in > front of "www"? > > Seriously, I was explaining the problem to someone saying "never click > 'OK'" when this e-mail came in and I realized how silly I was being. The problem is there is no perfect solution to these challenges that the industry faces. The enhanced SSL certs and browser magic, eg: www.paypal.com w/ Firefox3 gives a nice green "happy" bar. If you don't invest in these, or if there is a lack of user education around these issues it's just one big Pharming pool. I talked to some govvies today and made what I believe is the clear case when it comes to "Doing the right thing(tm)". My case was that the industry would do the right thing as a whole. There would be stragglers, but the risk of doing nothing is too high. If your nameservers have not been upgraded or you did not enable the proper flags, eg: dnssec-enable and/or dnssec-validation as applicable, I hope you will take another look. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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