arstechnica.com — A new hack designed to exploit a weakness in the DNS protocol is out, just days after information on the exploit was accidentally posted online. A patch for the issue was released almost two weeks ago, but a significant number of servers are still vulnerable.
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dycefreakJul 27, 2008
From the description:"A new hack designed to exploit a weakness in the DNS protocol is out""A patch for the issue was released almost two weeks ago"these Digg topic makers are retarded politicians I think...automatic updates anyone?
Closed AccountJul 27, 2008
Verizon's EVD0 DNS is still able to be bugged. Just a heads up.
mrviklundJul 27, 2008
OSX is.
Closed AccountJul 28, 2008
DyceFreak, is your ISP running its production DNS server on your Windows workstation?
antimatt3rJul 28, 2008
The people at Matasano Chargen are very smart people, but your right this is probably one of the dumbest things Ive seen a computer security company do.I wondered if this was a possibile plublicity stunt to get attention but they realized after doing this that their reputation would be tarnished forever and tried to pull it.
sysop073Jul 28, 2008
It came out by mistake about a week ago, a blog post was published before it was supposed to be
sysop073Jul 28, 2008
It was a miscommunication, the person who posted it thought the news had already broken
joehumphreyJul 29, 2008
There's no absolutely secure network, but we got some ways to monitor our network effective.I wanna recommend everyone here that Capsa, which is used to monitor, analyzer the whole network, is a very good software in this aspect. Just try it on <a class="user" href="http://www.etherlook.com/?promid=label">http://www.etherlook.com/?promid=label</a>