[HIB]Millions of routers vulnerable to DNS rebinding attack

According to security researcher Craig Heffner, about half the existing models of home routers, including most Linksys, Dell, and Verizon, are vulnerable to being hacked.The hack relies on tricking people to visit a malicious website. From that point on, the router itself can be hijacked and the poor user redirected pretty much anywhere the hacker wants them to go.The hack relies on a hack known as “DNS rebinding,” something that has been around for nearly 15 years: The hack exploits an element of the Domain Name System, or DNS, the Internet’s method of converting Web page names into IP address numbers. (When you visit Google.com, for instance, a domain name server might convert that name into the IP address 72.14.204.147.) Modern browsers have safeguards that prevent sites from accessing any information that’s not at their registered IP address.

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