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… Continue Reading
Black Hat: An interview with Dan Kaminsky, the DNS dude who saved the Internet
Dan Kaminsky showed up at the Black Hat conference in a Pac-Man T-shirt and jeans. But he was the man of the hour at a presentation yesterday that held 1,000 people spellbound during his ninth talk in 10 years. The 29-year-old self-described DNS guy talked… Continue Reading