For organizations that want to keep their computer network secure, the most basic thing they can do is to keep it patched. It’s not necessarily the most glamorous work out there for your overworked and overstretched IT people (which is why so many organizations are ignoring patching, at their peril). But your servers, network systems, [...]
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DNS Poisoning
February 23rd, 2009
Mourad Ben Lakhoua security researcher Dan Kaminsky who works at security services firm IOActive, said this week at BlackHat that the time may have come for IT vendors and users to consider broad adoption of the more-permanent security protections offered by DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, technology. The cache-poisoning flaw was publicly disclosed last July and after several [...]




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