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Serious DNS Vulnerability

I guess you already read about it, but if not here a short outcome.

Despite Dan Kaminsky’s efforts to keep a lid on the details of the critical DNS vulnerability he found, someone at the security firm Matasano leaked the information on its blog yesterday, then quickly pulled the post down. But not before others had grabbed the information and reposted it elsewhere, leading Kaminsky to post an urgent 0-day message on his blog reading, “Patch. Today. Now. Yes, stay late.”

 

Hackers are furiously working on an exploit to attack the vulnerability. HD Moore, creator of the Metasploit tool, says one should be available by the end of the day [...]

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You can read about this vulnerability on many different blogs, so be careful in the next couple of days when accessing websites, which ask to enter personal information.

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