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It was as if they chopped every cable to Sweden
Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-10-14 00:55:45
Yesterday, a DNS configuration error left the entire .SE domain adrift on the Internet sea.


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Apple in a BIND with Security Update 2009-004
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2009-08-12 18:14:02
Apple has released its second Mac OS X security update in just eight days.


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ICANN gears up to offer huge range of new top level domains
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-06-08 18:07:23
The Internet Corportion for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is meeting in Sydney in late June and progressing its plan to allow almost any string of letters to be used for a global top level domain (gTLD), like .org or .net, will be high on its agenda.


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.org made secure with DNSSEC
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-06-03 15:50:04
Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC) have been applied to the .org top level domain making it the largest domain registry to implement the security measure.


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Another critical patch for Windows Vista
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-03-10 16:24:02
Three bulletins covering eight vulnerabilities in Windows - that's the score for this month's Patch Tuesday. While one bulletin is rated critical, none of the issues have the highest exploitability index.


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Beware of rogue DHCP servers, warns Symantec
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2008-12-07 19:52:36
Computers on a LAN may be pharmed by rogue DHCP servers created by malware, leading to Internet traffic being diverted to bogus or otherwise malicious sites. A security vendor says attack code is in the wild.


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One in four domain name servers wide open to attack
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2008-11-13 14:21:09
Dan Kaminsky's discovery earlier this year of a new way to attack domain name servers caused near panic in the global Internet community and a rush to implement protection measures. But one in four servers remains vulnerable, according to a survey undertaken by Infoblox.


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How much have you saved by using GNU/Linux?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2008-10-20 17:49:44
At a time when economic problems dog the world, people's thoughts generally turn to saving. It is not surprising, therefore, to find many technology writers beginning to recognise that GNU/Linux and other open source software can reduce the amount that companies spend on IT.
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Nominum clobbers DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Network Security

2008-08-28 19:03:01
Internet software company, Nominum, has released a new version of its DNS server software that is claimed to offer much greater protection from the notorious DNS cache poisoning vulnerability unveiled earlier this year by security researcher Dan Kaminsky.


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Warning: DNS flaw spills over to OpenID
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2008-08-14 00:55:11
OpenID sounds like a great idea - essentially single-sign on for multiple web sites or web applications, without participating sites having to see your credentials. But is it trustworthy and safe in the light of recent revelations concerning a flaw on the DNS system on which it relies?


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Patched DNS still vulnerable to cache poisoning UPDATED
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Network Security

2008-08-11 20:07:49
After security expert Dan Kaminsky discovered how to exploit a known flaw in the global domain name system, the Internet community moved swiftly to develop and distribute fixes, but now a Russian programmer Evgeniy Polyakov claims to have found a way to beat the fix.


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Major DNS flaw: details likely to be revealed at Black Hat
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Network Security

2008-08-05 01:39:57
The global Internet community is bracing for the potential of malicious attacks on the domain name system with the discoverer of the DNS exploit that send shockwaves through the industry last month expected to reveal full details of it on August 6 at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.


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