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timschmidt
9 months ago
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Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their ...
A fairly prominent update service already runs from the domain microsoft.com Many machines come with it preinstalled.
wolverine876
9 months ago
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The erroneous DNS change wouldn't help that sort of exploit. It just redirects attempts to contact microsoft.com to a local address, probably a router.
timschmidt
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That's exactly what I said in the first post.
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