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Latest Domain Name Hack Disguises Its Danger

Can secretly steer Windows users wrong

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 11, 2007 8:48 PM CST

(Newser) – The misdirection of “open-recursive” DNS servers, which facilitate web-surfing by translating verbal domain names into numerical IP addresses, is the new, more covert face of cyber-criminality, and could explode into a new wave of phishing attacks, IDG News reports. Hackers can use these types...   Read full story »

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