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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 48 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:36:27 -0500 (CDT)http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=102125By Robert McMillanIDG News Service10 July 2008Computer security professionals have ganged up on Dan Kaminsky for violating a cardinal rule of hackerdom: publicising a flaw without providing the technical details to verify the finding.Kaminsky made headlines earlier this week by talking about a major flaw in the DNS software used to connect computers to each ot read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 36 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: exploit code kaminsky dns bug wild comments Discuss  
Still think threat is exaggerated?When Dan Kaminsky disclosed a critical flaw in the net's address lookup system earlier this month, he said it was crucial internet service providers and other organizations install patches immediately. He wasn't kidding.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 30 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:31:37 -0500 (CDT)http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-9998906-83.htmlBy Robert VamosiSecurityNews.comJuly 24, 2008In his first public comments since his Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning flaw was made public, Dan Kaminsky said in a conference call on Thursday he doesn't want to parse who said what when. He just wants everyone to understand that they must patch their systems now.Speaking during the second pre-Black Hat security confere read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 23 days ago
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DNS patch averts doom scenarioBlack Hat After a four-week orgy of speculation, recrimination and warnings, Dan Kaminsky's domain-name system vulnerability has finally gone public. And boy, are we glad the net's overlords paid attention.… read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 22 days ago
Via: http://voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: kaminsky details dns flaw black hat talk comments Discuss  
LAS VEGAS, NEV. -- Roughly 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies have patched their networks to fix a security flaw that lets cyber criminals redirect visitors to counterfeit or malicious Web sites, but Internet users still remain at grave risk due to the large number of infrastructure providers that have not yet addressed the issue, a prominent security researcher warned today. The data comes from a talk presented here at the Black Hat security conference...Please click on the title to continue reading this read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 22 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: kaminsky ways attack dns comments Discuss  
There were 6 a.m. calls from Finnish certificate authorities and also some pretty harsh words from his peers in the security community, even an accidentally leaked Black Hat presentation, but after managing the response to one of the most highly publicized Internet flaws in recent memory, Dan Kaminsky said Wednesday that he'd do it all over again. read more »
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