{"id":485,"date":"2012-04-11T15:41:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2012-04-11T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:50:56","slug":"opendns-does-not-prevent-infection-of-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/11\/opendns-does-not-prevent-infection-of-flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenDNS does not prevent infection of Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading the froth around Flashback I came upon this shameless bit of self promotion from OpenDNS: Worried about Mac malware? Just set up OpenDNS.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
What, Me Worried?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s got some amazing<\/em> claims:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
"All Mac users should switch to OpenDNS now to prevent infection"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A lot of people have commented:
\n19\u00a0pingbacks from various regurgitators:\u00a0FairerPlatform, Tech 3K, chicagogeek, News4iPhone, ZBlog!, Free Nulled Apps, Tech News, Tutto App, When’s the next Iphone out?, MostOfMyMac.com, iphone 4S issues, Apple Related, keepiphone.com, IT Blogger Blog, Apple Stocks, iHelpBoard, and The Apple Lounge<\/p>\n

One very<\/strong> enthusiastic supporter:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
"We should change the world for better"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then my comment:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Just asking...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s still awaiting moderation?! Whaaaaa?!<\/p>\n

[sarcasm]Why you no like me Allison? Is my English no too good? Do I NOT WRITE IN ENOUGH CAPS?!?! Why you no want make world for better?! Why no share my important tip?[\/sarcasm]<\/p>\n

Update Java folks. Relying on a DNS company to block DNS queries is just dumb. How do they know what all the Command and Control domains are? Those things can change at whim and I wouldn’t make DNS lookups my first line of defense, it certainly<\/strong>\u00a0isn’t preventative. If you don’t have your computer updated you can get compromised. Even if you do update, until Apple gets things patched quicker, even that’s not good enough, you need some protection, Sophos makes a good free product<\/a>. Get it.<\/p>\n

Also, if you think “I only go to good clean sites”. I’ll tell you, that you can never know. This site got hacked because of combination of a Dreamhost database compromise and \u00a0Wordpress vulnerabilities. That’s been taken care (otherwise you’d be redirected to femalebodyinspector.ru<\/em> or something like that — gawd, of all the hacks… — and the domain didn’t even work! ). But all it takes is some PHP\/Wordpress compromise and your site could be serving up malware. So be safe, be vigilant, and don’t think that someone else is going to protect you because they don’t let your computer talk to strangers (yes, OpenDNS I’m talking to you.)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While reading the froth around Flashback I came upon this shameless bit of self promotion from OpenDNS: Worried about Mac malware? Just set up OpenDNS. It’s got some amazing claims: A lot of people have commented: 19\u00a0pingbacks from various regurgitators:\u00a0FairerPlatform, Tech 3K, chicagogeek, News4iPhone, ZBlog!, Free Nulled Apps, Tech News, Tutto App, When’s the next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-os-x","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}