[LINK] PayPal phishing scam - is this a domain hijack

Eric Scheid eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au
Fri Jan 19 15:04:38 AEDT 2007


On 19/1/07 1:13 PM, "Rick Welykochy" <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:

> For example, my own domain name is praxis.com.au. Is it easy for someone
> to use westpac-security.login.validation.praxis.com.au as a valid
> domain and get that into the DNS somehow? I would imagine that would
> require some (illegal) hacking of zone files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning

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