OpenDNS Releases DNSCrypt to Encrypt All DNS Traffic
20.05.12
Recently.
A recent F5 Networks report
found that DNS
attacks were the most frequent type of attacks faced by organizations. They
are also the most difficult to defend against and have the highest impact on
enterprises, according to the report.
"DNS has,
unfortunately, always had some inherent weaknesses because it's transported in
plain-text," David
Ulevitch, OpenDNS CEO , wrote in a blog post announcing the DNSCrypt tool.
While there has been some
effort to secure DNS, there hasn't been much work done on the "last
mile," of the connection between the client machine and the Internet
service provider or the DNS provider, according to Ulevitch. The "last
mile" is when "bad things," such as snooping, tampering and
hijacking traffic, are "most likely to happen," Ulevitch wrote. It's
also "ripe" for man-in-the-middle attacks, especially if the user is
on an insecure network at a coffee shop, for example.
Source: eWeek