NEW ATTACK TECHNIQUE THREATENS BROADBAND USERS Millions of high-speed Internet users across the globe are threatened by a new attack technique called drive-by pharming, Symantec and Indiana University researchers warned Thursday. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1004039/1401570 This method is variation on the team to users equipment as a coprocessor. In this case, a java applet tries to guess the passwd of the users adsl router and then reconfigures the dns server in the box. Most users have not chnged the original passwd (if an) or use an easy tp gues one. More details got dicussed on nanog. On the practical note, I need to say something definite to my students what DNS experts think? Tell then to switch of java etc. :-). As noted, dnssec can protect against spoofed dns info. jaap