Dns Attacks Force Security Strategies to Be Rethought |Complete Security
Dns Attacks Force Security Strategies to Be Rethought After the blocking of several major sites by Orange, we wanted to understand how such a situation took hold, and how it can evolve. From the management of DNS resolvers by operators to alternatives in development, an overview with expert Stéphane Bortzmeyer. On the morning of October 17, Orange redirected its customers accessing several sites, including at least Google, OVH and Wikipedia, to the “terrorist sites” blocking page of the Ministry of the Interior. A concern caused by"human error" during the updating of the diversion system, imposed by the place Beauvau. The Ministry called the incumbent operator to account, and demanded the deletion of the IP addresses concerned from the consultation list of illicit sites. But this incident raises the question of the relevance of having imposed on French ISPs to offer lying DNS resolvers. As a reminder, a DNS resolver allows you to link ...