Breaking into the Internet?
In the NYTimes, a piece written by veteran tech reporter John Markoff on how the Internet’s Domain Name System is, put simply, hackable, and how the information that traffics through the web — personal information, passwords — can potentially be stolen:
Published: August 8, 2008SAN FRANCISCO — Faced with the discovery of a serious flaw in the Internet’s workings, computer network administrators around the world have been rushing to fix their systems with a cobbled-together patch. Now it appears that the patch has some gaping holes.
On Friday, a Russian physicist demonstrated that the emergency fix to the basic Internet address system, known as the Domain Name System, is vulnerable and will almost certainly be exploited by criminals.
