Updated: Security expert Dan Kaminsky weighs in on the Sarah Palin email hack
Dan Kaminsky, the director of penetration testing at IOActive, is the world’s most famous security hacker this summer. He found the flaw in DNS server technology that threatened to compromise the entire Internet and managed to get a patch out to protect everybody. In his talk at the recent Black Hat conference, he talked about how the DNS flaw had exposed weaknesses in the “forgot my password” feature on most login-based web sites. It so… Continue Reading