Security Sense: The Impact and Paradox of Lenovo Domain DNS Hijacking
Networking & SecuritySecurity Sense: The Impact and Paradox of Lenovo Domain DNS HijackingSecurity Sense: The Impact and Paradox of Lenovo Domain DNS Hijacking
One of the obvious problems with DNS hijacking is that any website can now be stood up in place of the legitimate one, you simply point the records to a new fraudulent site. In Lenovo’s case, certificate validation is somewhat of a paradoxical situation because much of the concern with the whole Superfish debacle was that anyone could create a cert that "infected" machines would trust.
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