Cache Poisoning Attacks

Some articles on cache poisoning attacks, poisoning attacks, cache poisoning attack, attacks:

DNS Spoofing - Cache Poisoning Attacks
... Poisoning attacks on a single DNS server can affect the users serviced directly by the compromised server or indirectly by its downstream server(s) if applicable ... To perform a cache poisoning attack, the attacker exploits a flaw in the DNS software ...
DNS Spoofing - Prevention and Mitigation
... Many cache poisoning attacks can be prevented on DNS servers by being less trusting of the information passed to them by other DNS servers, and ignoring ... nonce, can greatly reduce the probability of successful DNS race attacks ... DNSSEC can counter cache poisoning attacks, but as of 2008 was not yet widely deployed ...

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