Boffins from the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute have crunched six years and four months of data, and found that DNS spoofing, while uncommon, has doubled during that time.
"We show that spoofing today is rare, occurring only in about 1.7 per cent of observations," explain Lan Wei, a doctoral student, and John Heidemann, research professor of computer science, in a working paper distributed through ArXiv. "However, the rate of DNS spoofing has more than doubled in less than seven years, and it occurs globally."
The Domain Name System, or DNS, translates human-friendly domain names (eg, theregister.com) into computer-friendly numeric IP addresses (eg, 104.18.4.22) so that netizens can point their browsers and other software to particular services on the internet, such as this humble organ. DNS was designed back in the 1980s, and ..
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