Like so many people, I too enjoy detective stories. For people interested in network security, there’s at least Henning Mankell’s Firewall, a fictional account of how detective Wallander from the small Swedish town of Ystad solves a cybercrime – or a conspiracy, really – threatening the entire world. Granted, some parts of the novel may seem a little naive for people working actively in the field of network security, but it’s none the less an entertaining read, as Wallander books tend to be.

Anyhow, assuming you share my fascination towards detective stories and DNS, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the story on Kaminsky Vulnerability published in the latest issue of Wired Magazine. It’s almost like reading a detective short story – but unlike most short stories, this one is based on reality.  To read the article online, please click here.

As an interesting sidenote, Andreas Gustafsson appearing in this story is actually the same guy who was the mastermind behind the proprietary primary DNS server we still use in Nixu NameSurfer today. After having developed the ‘ns process’ used in our proprietary DNS server, Andreas moved on to Nominum to develop BIND 9. But this of course is a different story altogether, with no detectives involved!