DNS cache poisoning vulnerability worse than feared

The BBC reported on 7th August that Dan Kaminsky said that the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability is worse than initially feared. Kaminsky is the man who found the bug.

He said fixes for the bug in DNSes had focused on web browsers but it could be abused by hackers in many other ways. Hence, every network is at risk.

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Written by pinolobu on August 7th, 2008 with no comments.
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