Tuesday, March 18, 2014

I was not aware of this - Google DNS was hijacked for 22 minutes on March 16



It does not seem to be Google's fault but the ISP 



According to the article:- 

Google's Public DNS servers are used for "130 billion DNS queries on average (peaking at 150 billion) from more than 70 million unique IP addresses each day." 

Network security company BGPmon reported that Google's Public DNS server, 8.8.8.8, was hijacked for Internet users in Brazil and Venezuela for 22 minutes

It required that an important router at a major South American ISP be under the control of an attacker



The links below has more information:

http://www.zdnet.com/google-free-public-dns-services-were-briefly-corrupted-7000027401

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