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  • ISC patches publicly disclosed denial-of-service vulnerability affecting BIND 9

    The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the organization that develops and maintains the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software, has patched a publicly disclosed vulnerability that can be used to remotely crash DNS servers running recent releases of BIND 9.

    Written by Lucian Constantin06 June 13 11:50
  • Security roundup for week ending Nov. 18: Facebook, Norway oil-industry cyberattacks, and why virtualization and mobile devices mean security stress

    Last week's flood of pornographic and violent images that <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/111511-facebook-users-hit-by-nasty-253153.html">hit Facebook</a> was a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/111711-dont-blame-anonymous-for-facebook-253243.html">coordinated spam attack</a> that caught the attention of the world. But less remarked-upon and perhaps more sinister was what may have been a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/111711-isc-patches-bind-denial-of-service-flaw-253226.html">denial-of-service attack on many organizations' DNS servers</a>, based on an exploit of the BIND 9 protocol, temporarily knocking their networks offline. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), which maintains several software products essential for Internet infrastructure, released a patch that's something of an interim fix for this and said it would conduct an investigation. This kind of attack -- which incapacitates entire networks, as it did in this case -- is truly worrisome.

    Written by Ellen Messmer19 Nov. 11 05:36
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