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Title: Apple skewered over missing DNS patch Post by: Alex on July 30, 2008, 04:37:16 AM Apple skewered over missing DNS patch
Apple has come under fire for failing to patch the critical Domain Name System (DNS) flaw which prompted a (rest of) industry wide response earlier this month.For anyone just back from a trip up the Amazon, the discovery of a domain spoofing vulnerability by security researcher Dan Kaminsky sparked a massive patching effort that began on 8 July. Dozens of vendors - including Microsoft, Cisco, Ubuntu and the Internet Systems Consortium, which maintains BIND - released updates that mitigated against the risk of cache poisoning attacks, which stem from security shortcomings in the protocol itself rather than coding errors. View: The full story @ The Reg Read full story... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/349708024/apple-skewered-over-missing-dns-patch |