Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Huge DNS Vulnerability

Dan Kaminsky from IO Active revealed a Huge vulnerability in DNS today. He noted that it was a DNS Cache poisoning attack and is effective against all major DNS servers. Since DNS is the glue of the internet, this vulnerability is a BIG one. Most major vendors have supplied patches already.

Check out the rest of the information here:

US Cert Vulnerability Note VU#800113
Systems Management News article
Cnet article
InformationWeek article

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