Sandy Wilbourn is the Vice President of Engineering at Nominum. Sandy is also the co-founder and former security blogger at Determina. He helped create and deliver a patch for the Kaminsky attack, which has now been deployed in networks that serve over 150 million households. He can be reached at sandy.wilbourn@nominum.com.
The seriousness of the recent DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky, raises the bar for network security administrators and should provoke development of a comprehensive plan to address this insidious threat. Every enterprise has a caching DNS server and is thus a target of the Kaminsky DNS cache poisoning flaw. A […]