76% of organizations have suffered a DNS attack

  • 16 December 2014
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Posted on 16 December 2014. Seventy-six percent of organizations in the U.S. and U.K. have suffered a DNS attack, with 49 percent experiencing one in the past 12 months, according to Cloudmark.

The most common DNS threats reported were DDoS (74 percent), DNS exfiltration (46 percent), DNS tunnelling (45 percent) and DNS hijacking (33 percent) by those who had suffered an attack.

Three hundred IT decision makers were polled across the U.S. and U.K. and, of those who reported suffering a DNS attack, more than half admitted to losing business critical data or revenue. An astounding third of respondents also confirmed they had lost confidential customer information. Full Article

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The following article is a update:

Nearly 50 Percent of Organizations Hit With DNS Attack in Last 12 Months: Survey

By Brian Prince on December 24, 2014
 
New research from Vanson Bourne found that more than three quarters of organizations in the United States and U.K. have suffered a domain name system (DNS) attack.
 
Just less than half (49 percent) of the organizations surveyed said they had experienced such an attack in the past 12 months. The most common DNS threats reported were DDoS (74 percent), DNS exfiltration (46 percent), DNS tunneling (45 percent) and DNS hijacking (33 percent) by those who had suffered an attack.
 
The research surveyed 300 U.S. and U.K. key IT decision makers in organizations with 1,000+ employees. It covered a variety of verticals including financial services, retail, distribution and transport, IT and manufacturing and production. The study was commissioned by Cloudmark.
 
A third of the respondents confirmed they had lost confidential customer information. Despite this however, 44 percent of those who found it difficult to justify DNS security investment to their company felt it was because their senior management does not see DNS security as an issue. More than half of the IT decision makers polled (55 percent) cited the theft of private or confidential data as a major concern to their organization.
 
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