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High Severity DoS Flaw Patched in BIND

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Sep

2016

Updates released this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) for the DNS software BIND address two vulnerabilities, including a new high-severity issue that can be exploited remotely. BIND 9.9.9-P3, 9.10.4-P3 and 9.11.0rc3 patch a previously undisclosed denial-of-service (DoS) flaw that can be exploited using specially crafted DNS request packets. The security hole, tracked as […]

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When you isolate your industrial control systems don’t forget about DNS

10

Jun

2016

Many organizations that run industrial control systems strive to isolate them from the Internet, but sometimes forget to disallow Domain Name System (DNS) traffic, which provides a stealthy way for malware to exfiltrate data. Sometimes referred to as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, industrial control systems (ICS) are notoriously insecure. Not only is […]

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Use Linux? Stop what you’re doing and apply this patch

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Feb

2016

A buffer-overflow vulnerability uncovered Tuesday in the GNU C Library poses a serious threat to countless Linux users. Dating back to the release of glibc 2.9 in 2008, CVE-2015-7547 is a stack-based buffer overflow bug in the glibc DNS client-side resolver that opens the door to remote code execution when a particular library function is […]

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