Cuinsight : On Part Two of my excellent BIGcast conversation with security expect Jim Stickley of Stickley on Security, Jim tells me of the scariest new trend he’s come across lately in the world of security.
While this isn’t exactly ‘new’, Jim is appalled that no one is doing anything to remedy the issues of criminals targeting in-home routing and modem devices in order to change their DNS settings. DNS servers act as the ‘telephone book’ for internet networking. They deliver the IP address to your computer for whatever website you are trying to access. Generally, these devices have strong blocks and firewalls to avert any internet entity from entering it, so the odds of hacking into it are low. So, criminals have gotten smart about it. They have developed malicious websites disguised as ordinary every day websites in order to hack into your internal network while you are browsing the internet. Click here to know more.
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