Canadian ISP Hijacking DNS Lookup Errors 225
Freshly Exhumed tips us to news that Canadian ISP Rogers Cable appears to be redirecting invalid DNS requests to their own search and advertising page. Roadrunner got caught doing the same thing earlier this year. According to the article, "The hijacking appears to be an attempt by Rogers to use its Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to cash in on the mistakes of its users." Freshly Exhumed also reminds us, "As IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky has warned in the past, this presents a very serious security problem."
Hijack? Rogers ? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hijack? Rogers ? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Good Grief (Score:5, Funny)
According to Paul Vixie, Level3 operators have said that they plan to restrict access to these servers in future to customers only, so make sure you have an alternative available!
Re:Well I'll be... (Score:3, Funny)
Granted that's a tough name to spell properly for a North American, but since I'd click on a bookmarked link, or a google page, I was sure it wasn't a problem with my typing.
'Snot very nice of you to insult North Americans so openly and to make such broad sweeping strokes about the intellectual capacity of North Americans.
Ah well. I think you might be right though.
Re:Rogers are Scum (Score:3, Funny)