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Dan Kaminsky discovered that properties inherent to the DNS protocol lead to practical DNS cache poisoning attacks. Among other things, successful attacks can lead to misdirected web traffic and email rerouting.

Read more: Security Alert: BIND9 DNS Cache Poisoning Bug

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