๐๐ก๐ง. ๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ธ๐’๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ – ๐ก๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ (๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ด)
DAN KAMINSKY, an American computer security researcher, sits in a chair alongside his friend, ARTUR BERGMAN. They both type on their computers.
DAN – “Holy moly! There’s a flaw in the DNS!”
ARTUR – “A vulnerability?”
DAN – “Yes, look! This part of the internet architecture…it’s crucial to making the internet usable.”
ARTUR – “What a find! We go from trying to speed up content delivery networks by getting the Domain Name System to use faster servers, and we end up saving the internet.”
DAN – “I gotta call the Department of Homeland Security and executives at Cisco and Microsoft to let them know I’ll start working on the fix!”
๐ป Kaminsky presented the massively widespread and critical DNS vulnerability that allowed attackers to send users to malicious sites and hijack email at Black Hat, the information security conference. The exploit would allow attackers to impersonate any legitimate website and steal data.
โจ๏ธ Without him, we’d be typing in something like 64.202.163.182 instead of just going to mjwcareers.com.
๐ฐ The New York Times labeled Kaminsky an “Internet security savior” and “a digital Paul Revere”.
๐ Dan Kaminsky saved the internet in 2008.
๐ RIP, Mr. Kaminsky.
#onthisdayinhistory
Check out this neat video too:
๐ Chime in over here and let me know your thoughts!
Leave A Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.