Subject: Re: [dnsop] what scares me about doug...

From: "Fergie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:09:50 GMT

- -- wayne <[email-masked]> wrote:

>In <[email-masked]> "Fergie"
><[email-masked]> writes:  
>
>> -- wayne <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm afraid you have almost completely missed the point of Williams
>>>"HELO attack".
>>
>> Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but DNS has been on the 'Top 20'
>> vulnerability report for the past 7 years. get over it.
>>
>> Seven years in a row:
>>
>>  http://www.sans.org/top20/?ref=1814
>
>Yeah, but that just mentions DNS reflector attacks and cache
>poisoning.
>

Again, my point was the fact that DNS is the _only_ entry in
the SANS Top 20 vulnerability traget list which has been on
the list 7 years in a row, since it's inception.

That's nothing to sneeze at and/or trivialize. :-)

- - ferg

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