Protect yourself: DNS flaws
In case you haven’t heard yet, there is a critical vulnerability in the DNS system. If left unpatched (and a recent probe found that about half of the ISPs in the world haven’t bothered yet), it can result in your browser being quite happy that (for example) the banking page you’re on is genuine when in fact you are handing over your details to a malicious site.
Fortunately the tech-savvy can protect themselves quite easily. Simply set up your home (or office) router to use OpenDNS instead of your ISP’s DNS. OpenDNS never had this vulnerability. It also offers some other cool stuff like shortcuts (I visit http://www.outnow.co.uk quite often, but only enter “on” as an address) and phishing protection.
There’s an idea that OpenDNS will also help protect you against Phorm and similar, although I’m not sure that’ll work. Regardless, every little extra bit of added security these days is a good thing. Protect yourself from DNS cache-poisoning, there’s no reason not to.
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