That's a very dangerous type of hacking - if a name server is compromised, then a huge number of users can be sent to malicious websites that they did not select, which could be, for example, login screens for bank accounts, etc. You could carefully put the correct url for your bank, and be misdirected by a compromised name server to a phony login that records and steals your user name and password.
Secure login helps. They may get you to go their bogus login page, but they probably can't get the little lock to close. Usually the attacks on name servers are denial of service attacks that just screw things up. But sometimes they are more insideous. Bacon, WA3WDR ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
