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Threat From DNS Bug Is not Over, Experts Say

September 10th, 2008 · Comments Off

The Domain Name Server design flaw that threatened the entire Internet earlier this year has mostly been patched, but the threat is far from over, experts say. The DNS flaw, which was discovered by IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky in the first half of this year and resulted in the largest simultaneous security software patch in [...]

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How Does OpenDNS New Competition Stack Up?

February 14th, 2008 · Comments Off

If you’ve considered a free DNS service for your client resolving needs, there is more than one game in town, now. DNS Advantage, a NeuStar, Inc. service, has just come online. Should you think about switching away from OpenDNS? Should OpenDNS be worried?

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DNS Inventor Warns of Next Big Threat

February 13th, 2008 · Comments Off

The industry is just one multi-million-dollar corporate data breach away from waking up to the serious and often-silent threat of corrupted DNS resolution servers, says DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris.

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Hacking a New DNS Attack

December 29th, 2007 · Comments Off

New findings by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google on a malicious DNS-related attack have stirred some debate over whether open recursive DNS servers are inherently insecure. DNS servers basically translate domain names, like darkreading.com, into IP addresses so that computers can find one another. Recursive DNS servers respond to DNS lookup [...]

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