[AfrICANN-discuss] Google blames DNS insecurity for Web site defacements

Calvin Browne calvin at orange-tree.alt.za
Sun May 17 11:42:19 SAST 2009


On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 10:03 -0700, SM wrote:
> At 04:36 16-05-2009, Dr Yassin Mshana wrote:
> >Now we can see how end-to-end security measures by as proposed 
> >for/by DNSSEC could be handy.
> 
> The news article doesn't contain any technical information to 
> determine whether DNSSEC would have prevented the issue. 
<SNIP>
> The better question is to ask for a technical analysis of what 
> happened and what steps have been taken to prevent a recurrence.
> 
> Regards,
> -sm 

I agree with this - the release is just way too short on details to
understand what went wrong here.
More details are needed.

--Calvin



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