Re: How secure are the wire services' feeds?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Perhaps.

A similarly-related, semi-humorous news story (although
not regarding poisoning DNS):

[snip]

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

A fictitious article saying Chinese troops invaded the Japanese island of Okinawa was seen on a bogus Japanese-language 
Yahoo News website at the height of tensions between the two Asian neighbours.

The article, which was wrongly credited to Japan's Kyodo news agency, reported that the US Department of Defense 
announced the "invasion" early Tuesday.

[snip]

The AFP news article on Yahoo! News:

[snip]

Sorry, the page you requested was not found.
The story or page you were trying to access may have expired.

[snip]

I hate when they do that. :-/

- ferg

-- Anthony Rodgers <Anthony_Rodgers () dnv org> wrote:

Just wondering what would happen if someone did a DNS cache poisoning 
that redirected media outlets to a fake version of where they get their 
AP/Reuters feeds from and started feed them bogus news........

Would any of them even notice?

Cheers,

CunningPike


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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