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DNS hijacking

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DNS hijacking
An illegal change to a DNS server that directs a URL to a different Web site. In some cases, the new Web site's URL may have one different letter in the name that might go unnoticed. The bogus Web site might offer similar and/or competing products for sale, or it may be a vehicle to publicly smear the reputation of the intended Web site. See DNSSec, DNS cache poisoning and pharming.


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For instance, it could be used to carry out distributed denial-of-service attacks or DNS hijacking, by which users trying to visit legitimate websites would be redirected to malicious destinations.
ORG is the first open top-level domain to fight DNS hijacking using DNSSEC DUBLIN -- Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services and domain name registry technology, today announced that it has successfully signed the .
 
 
 
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