Dns Spoofing Attack Explained In Cyber Security
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Today is about DNS spoofing attacks.
First, DNS stands for Domain Name System.
Sometimes, this is referred to as DNS cache poisoning.
This is basically a cyberattack that manipulates the domain name system to redirect network traffic.
Basically, what DNS does is translate human-readable domain names, like www.YouTube.com into an IP address that a computer can understand.
DNS spoofing is maliciously associating a domain name with a different IP address.
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Imagine the internet is a huge city, and each website you visit is like a house in that city.
Usually, to find a house that you are after, you would use a map.
DNS is the map for the Internet.
When you type www.YouTube.com,
Your browser asks the Internet for the DNS — you know, the map — for the address ( like the house number) of where that website lives online.
Now, this is where spoofing comes in.
So imagine if someone gave your browser the wrong address on purpose.
Instead of going to the right house, you end up going to a different one.
That is basically what happens in a DNS spoofing attack.
Someone with malicious intent gives your browser the wrong DNS information to direct you to a fake website.
They do this because they may be trying to trick you into giving away your password or personal information.
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