As explained here:
w w w. securesphere(dot)net/download/papers/dnsspoof.htm
I note the recommendations:
- To limit the cache and check that it's not keeping additional records.
- Not to make security systems to use/rely on DNS.
- Use cryptography like SSL, even if the problem remains the same, it increase difficulty level for the attacker (See article on Man in the Middle)
I did not on another site that the latest version of BIND for DNS should be installed.
I'm quite sure I'm being attacked in this way by a guy on the same network as my numerous commercial websites.
I'm setting a new server. I'm getting my own name server.
What steps should I take to best protect my self and my business against these attacks please?
(firewall? tips etc beside the above?) Please let me know as I want to set up and have a better than even bet I have shaken the guy.
An alliance of software makers and network-hardware vendors announced on Tuesday that they had banded together to fix a fundamental flaw in the design of the internet's address system.
The vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) - the distributed database that matches a host and domain name with the numerical address of a computer server - could give an attacker the ability to replace the addresses of popular websites with that of a malicious server, said Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for security firm IOActive. Kaminsky found the flaw when he was doing non-security research on the domain name system (DNS) more than six months ago.
"It is a fundamental issue affecting the design," Kaminsky said. "Because the system is behaving exactly like it is supposed to behave, the same bug will show up in vendor after vendor after vendor. This one bug affected not just Microsoft ... not just Cisco, but everyone."
On Tuesday, a number of software and network-hardware vendors released patches for their products. On its regularly scheduled patch day, Microsoft released updates for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to mitigate the issue, which the company ranked an important vulnerability, its second highest grade of severity. Internet Software Consortium, the group responsible for the development of the popular Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) server, also released a patch, confirming that its software contained the vulnerability. Both Cisco and Juniper also acknowledged flawed systems.
Vendors have also provided the fix to certain large clients. Yahoo will be upgrading its name servers from BIND 8 to the latest version of BIND 9, the Internet Software Consortium stated during the conference call. Internet service provider Comcast has already patched its servers for the issue, according to internet infrastructure firm Nominum. Finally, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center has contacted some other nation's response groups to inform them of the problem.
For the most part, however, internet service providers and companies each received the fix on Tuesday, said Sandy Wilbourn, vice president of engineering at Nominum. The goal: To have every major service provider and company apply their software patches in 30 days.
For that reason, don't expect immediate action, Wilbourn said.
"For key customers on our network, we have made a special effort to get them an early release to help solve this problem, and a number of them have finished deployment," he said. "But the nature of this patch is that we wanted to get the vendor side covered and then have deployment over the next 30 days. Anyone that is not patched by today or tomorrow is not doing anything wrong."
The domain-name system (DNS) has been a popular way to attack the internet in the past - it's an ill-kept secret that the DNS system is insecure. The way that many software applications, such as browsers, handle DNS requests has opened up users to attack. Microsoft has fixed a few vulnerabilities in the way Windows handles domain names - issues that could have lead to easier eavesdropping or simpler phishing attacks.
I recently had a problem with a hacked dedicated server which was attacked by ARP Poisoning and a Remote Desktop man-in-the-middle attack from another dedicated server on the same subnet. Maybe unreasonably I expected controls in place to prevent this, better detection and better handling of this problem, lack of which have left me uneasy about the hosting.
I know using Remote Desktop with a cert would prevent the server being compromised, but my concern would then be HTTP traffic being hijacked and malware insertion, redirection to non HTTPS login pages, redirects to anywhere, etc. If ARP Poisoning occurs then even if my server is fully secure all the web addresses pointing to my server's IP are basically compromised by HTTP traffic redirection.
Before this happened I had assumed (bad idea) that there would be some kind of mac level assigning of IP addresses.
What level of protection from this type of problem should I expect from the Dedicated Server supplier on their network? Problem started after I rebooted our server, IP was grabbed and the network adaptor was disabled due to IP conflict, so machine didn't not respond to pings. I raised a ticket and was told
"when your server came up it couldn't use it's assigned IP address as for some unknown reason another device on the network is using it's IP, we're tracking down the device and we'll have your server operational in few minutes."
They re-enabled the network adaptor presumably without fully checking the situation. I assumed the situation was either an innocent misconfiguration or that the issue had been fully investigated and dealt with, I reconnected via remote desktop and a few minutes later the server was compromised (wiped event logs, Cain and Abel installed etc).
Our machine was wiped, reinstalled and no further problem arose, but they initially seemed to deny that the two issues were related. Suggesting it would have been hacked externally via IIS vulnerabilities. Then 18 days later(!) they released a message advising all users with machines on the subnet that they had shutdown a malicious machine (not ours) on the subnet and to change passwords, run malware scans etc! Whether this was the same original machine or another server compromised I don't know. However our server was running with Cain and Abel and a whole lot more for quite a while as I checked it before it was taken off line for reinstallation.
Is this a common occurrence? Do most dedicated hosting providers have proper measures to prevent this or are there any measures I can take to prevent this happening again?
I got an email "failure delivery notification" but i did not sent that email. It had my email address though.
So I contacted host and got a very quick reply:
Quote:
The is caused due to the email spoofing. Someone was spoofing your email account and sending mails by adding the mail header so that the appears to have originated from the actual source. By setting SPF record correctly in the DNS zone of the domain, we can almost prevent this.
Here The SPF record was not setup correctly. Now we have made some changes in the SPF record in the DNS zone file "/var/named/domainname.com.db".
------------ v=spf1 a mx ip4:67.21.1.226 ?all -----> v=spf1 a mx ip4:67.21.1.226 ~all ------------
Now I can understand that they have quickly fixed the problem. BUT I need to learn more on what is going on here.
I can understand that email spoofing is that spammer is sending email with header that shows it is my email address (which it is not).
But I dont understand the second part that a DNS record fix it.
What does that DNS line mean,
DNS stuff is really complicated and am lost when it comes to it.
I got a bounced back message that I never sent. I was profoundly shocked to discover (through the header info) that the message originated from dotworlds.net; a site that ostensibly is a spoof email service provider.
Upon reading http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08...sky_black_hat/ it appears those who use network address translation may be vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning even after patching their DNS servers.
"another 15 per cent are still vulnerable to some extent because they use network address translation gear that prevents the patch from working."
Some people sent spoofing mails from our mail users sent to our user from Postfix/local that is listed in maillog like below:
Apr 29 16:57:02 ns1 postfix/local[3075]: EC2153565E3: to=<user-mydomain.com@ns1.mydns.com>, orig_to=<user@mydomain.com>, relay=local, delay=486, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail-wrapper -o -a $DOMAIN -d $LOGNAME)
Bu i do not know how to prevent this people not to use my Postfix/local delivery part. How can i prevent this attack?
When i connect to my mail server to sent or receive my mail it look like Apr 29 17:25:28 ns1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=***.***.***.***, lip=***.***.***.*** .... Apr 29 17:25:55 ns1 dovecot: POP3(user@mydomain.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0....
Is there any way to stop spammers from spoofing my address? I've had issues ever since I started this server with getting bounced spam where the "From:" field was (jibberish)@mydomain.com which was annoying but not that constant.
I came online this morning to check my mail and had over 1200 e-mails and all of them have "online@wellsfargo.com" as the "From:" address, but the message-ID has my domain name in it..
Quote:
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
Return-path: <nobody@host.mydomain.com> Received: from nobody by host.mydomain.com with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from <nobody@host.mydomain.com>) id 1Hju9b-0002y3-TH for lwilder1999@yahoo.com; Fri, 04 May 2007 05:32:43 -0400 To: lwilder1999@yahoo.com Subject: Update Your Account Records From: Wells Fargo Online <online@wellsfargo.com> Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <E1Hju9b-0002y3-TH@host.mydomain.com> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 05:32:43 -0400
There's gotta be some way (make that 1204.. just got 4 more bounces) to block spammers from doing this. Could someone help a newbie out?
I'm sure that i have Trojans and Viruses on my Server but every time i contacted My Company they ask me to pay money and then they will check and scan my server
so is it any Free application which can scan and remove all bad files on my Server? i'm looking for free applications to scan the whole server
My server stop responding, I couldn't access via webmin or ssh, and DNS were not responding, so I have to ask for a reboot and now everything is fine.
Looking at the logs I found this:
Code: Jul 18 19:23:12 server sshd[18484]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 56817 ssh2 Jul 18 19:23:12 server sshd[18485]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 60227 ssh2 Jul 18 19:23:13 server sshd[18488]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 38038 ssh2 Jul 18 19:23:15 server sshd[18493]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 49884 ssh2 Jul 18 19:24:30 server sshd[18497]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 37929 ssh2 Jul 18 19:25:06 server sshd[18521]: Did not receive identification string from 61.145.196.117 Jul 18 19:25:09 server sshd[18508]: Did not receive identification string from 61.145.196.117 Jul 18 19:25:14 server sshd[18505]: fatal: Timeout before authentication for UNKNOWN Jul 18 19:26:00 server sshd[18509]: Did not receive identification string from 61.145.196.117 And searching that IP on google I found it here: http://www.tcc.edu.tw/netbase/net/in...?fun=240&prd=3
And is flagged as a SSH Attack.
Any ideas why my server stopped working? and how to prevent it?
My site currently in prolong HTTP flood attack since 2 weeks ago. The attack was never stop and for this moment i could only mitigate the attack using my own firewall (hardware).
Since my ISP is not interested to help from upstream, even provide any mitigation services, i could only doing mitigation on my own source or using proxy services alternatively as well, but i've chose to tried on my own. I've tried once on one of well-known mitigation services out there but it seems not fully satisfied me since most of legitimate traffic is blocked from their source.
What i could do now is keep staying alive as well as will not going down on whatever situation becomes worst (but if the attack change to udp attack, i couldn't help myself coz there must be high incoming bandwidth into my network). My network is totaling 10MB last time but since this attack i've been forced to subscribe for 30MB in order to keep balance on the attack.
I've blocked all access except for my country and some other neighbours. If i change policy to allow all countries, the load of firewall will become max and after that hang will hang in less than a minute. I've done load balancing of 4 servers (8GB memory each one) and it seems the condition is getting under control with slight problem of server hang (memory shortage) and very limited keep alive connection.
Now what am i thinking is to buy a router objectively to null route incoming specific IP of countries so i can change my firewall policy to allow all connections as well as to help the firewall itself release its burden halting blocked IP that currently keep hitting itself that could might impact its performance.
Which brands of router is possible doing this thing?
Do you have some other suggestions instead of buying router?
i am just having one issue in one of my highly visited website hangibar.com, its being hosted in softlayer, we are facing synattack too much in this website.
the solution which microsoft given in their website related with tcp/ip registry entry but thing is same , some where and some connections become increases too much over tcp/ip. due to that reason website become very sticky and it stop functioning the execution of sql process, during this issue i have to restart the server to establish a fresh connection.
When i tried to view this http://gihkus.com/Lnx.txt it seems to be attack on my server. http://gihkus.com/Lnx.txt is not hosted by us. I have disabled perl support on all domains hosted on our server but still we are under attack. There is nothing special in /tmp.
Over the past day one of my servers has seen a huge rise in incomming traffic (from normal web requests to a constant 4Mbit/s, peaking upto 80Mbit/s). My outgoing traffic has remained at its normal profile, so I am pretty sure that these are not web requests, and it does not seem to be having an adverse effect on the server (the site still runs perfectly well and quick and load is still less than 1).
However, I am unsure as to how to identify what this traffic is? Are there any easy ways to tell on a FreeBSD server what the source and type of incomming traffic is? I have tried playing with netstat, but an not getting anything useful - I would like to see which ports are involved.
Am Really suffering here for ddos attack ( apache - pop3 ) every week my server under attack am using APF but now am really wanna get red from it am looking for a powerfull firewall I do not know if CSF Could stop this attack like limiting receiving SYN from an ip or any other policy another thing . i have get this rules from forums but am really weak at iptables rules so can any one help my if these rules useful or not . against Dos attack:
iptables -t nat -N syn-flood iptables -t nat -A syn-flood -m limit --limit 12/s --limit-burst 24 -j RETURN iptables -t nat -A syn-flood -j DROP iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -d (dest ip) -p tcp --syn -j syn-flood
I have a windows server, and today it has a large inbound traffic, so I tried to disable all web service, and after that, the result of netstat -an shows no connection at all, but the server still has large inbound traffic,
i had installed anti ddos or firewall,but those are useless.His attacks are such great that The server and all the vps are down now. One told me that I should check the ips and receive ips. The attacker is so skillful .describe the best method to defeat him. Be sides the attacker use diffirenet ips in each attack,I block him by iptables but no use…. His attack occupy all the ram and I have to resetart the server… Now this time his attack lead to shutting all the vps down
My website is under ddos attack from some competitors. I don't know yet how big is the attack. The ips of the ddos attack come from all the world.
I have contacted a few hosting companies specialised in ddos proof hosting, unfortunatly the price is so expensive that i cannot afford it.
So i try to find another solution : my website is only aimed to the french people, so maybe is it possible to install a kind of firewall or proxy located before the server to block all the incoming IP adress not from france ? Do you know some websites who can do this and the price ?
I already try do deny the non-french ip in one htaccess file but the ddos attack saturate the server anyway.
We are currently experiencing an SYN Flood attack on our primary production server and are looking for some help in resolving the issue.
Running: Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2-64 SuperMicro X7DBR-E Intel Xeon QuadCore DualProc SATA [2Proc] Processor Intel Xeon-Clovertown 5320L-QuadCore [1.86GHz] 8GB Memory @ Softlayer DC in Texas.
Need help within the next hour or two. Please ask any necessary follow up questions and how you might go about resolving the issue (i.e. SYN Cookies, etc.)
It's literally thousands of those requests overloading apache. The server is fine, the load average is like .8. But none of the website are loading.
We're hosting with ThePlanet, and they're doing a great job at blocking a huge portion of the attack. But we're still getting hit pretty hard. I've got APF installed, and 3 or 4 anti-dos scripts.
Every once in a while a page will load for the websites, I think we've got just under 50 legit connections.
