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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 219 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: panic attack brings russian nuke pages comments Discuss  
Not hack attackReports last week of a coordinated attack on websites that provide Russians with advance notice of nuclear accidents appear to be unfounded, a security researcher says. Instead, he says an outage of the emergency information system likely collapsed under a crush of visitors frantically trying to find out if they were in danger of a nuclear catastrophe.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 177 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: dns protocol flaw dont panic patch comments Discuss  
The exploit, discovered by IOActive's Dan Kaminsky, takes advantage of a fundamental flaw in the DNS protocol. Organizations should move quickly to patch vulnerable DNS servers. Kaminsky says the bug can be exploited to redirect Internet traffic but the problem has been solved by implementing port randomization. · Despite the fact that few people know all the technical details of the bugaffecting domain name servers that security researcher DanKaminsky reported July 8, there is no shortage of opini read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 173 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: dns protocol flaw dont panic patch comments Discuss  
The exploit, discovered by IOActive's Dan Kaminsky, takes advantage of a fundamental flaw in the DNS protocol. Organizations should move quickly to patch vulnerable DNS servers. Kaminsky says the bug can be exploited to redirect Internet traffic but the problem has been solved by implementing port randomization. - Despite the fact that few people know all the technical details of the bugaffecting domain name servers that security researcher DanKaminsky reported July 8, there is no shortage of opinions o read more »
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