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Guess you know what is DNS ?
If you don’t know what it is …
Its Domain Name System. All the servers will have some set of numbers to identify them (IP), to recognize them easily we give them a name (domain name) and for internet to work, DNS maps these names to numbers. (Duh, read wikipedia for more info)

For the techie folks who know whats DNS, you might have missed this news. There was a bug. It was just a bug when people din’t know. Few days before , its was a problem as bad people know that it exists. And couple of days before, it became a major problem as bad people got to know how to tame the bug and exploit it. And today, its frigging Pain in the A** as our dumb ISPs are not fixing their DNS servers.

Well, the bug is that bad people can manipulate DNS lookups. Which literally means, when you open Google.com, then can send you to Yahoo.com too. Search engines need not be a problem, but if they manipulate DNS of a bank … the answer is … somebody is gonna get hurt real badddddd

So, I request you to check (@Doxpara) whether your DNS server is vulnerable to such bug or not, and if it is, change it to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) and stay secure. As of today, I’ve tested BSNL and Airtel DNS servers (Chennai) and both of them are vulnerable. Guess, we need to take a huge rod and shove it up into someone’s a** and make them fix their DNS servers so that we can stay secure.

For extra-super-terrestial technical folks, I need not tell you about this, but incase you missed it, check (@Securebits) the exploiter released.