Anyone closely following the news might have come across reports regarding netizens that would be disconnected from the Internet after July 9. Media calls this the “Internet Doomsday”, and online campaigns asking Internet users to check their systems for a possible DNS Changer infection is, as of this writing, ongoing. DNS Changer is a Trojan […]
Today marks the opening of a revolutionary registration program at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The new generic top-level domain (gTLD) registration programme is open to those who can afford the $185,000 (?120,000) evaluation fee. ICANN is growing the Domain Name System (DNS) system by seeking registrations of any word, including […]
A zero-day vulnerability is causing BIND 9 DNS servers to crash across the internet. The flaw, described as an “as-yet unidentified network event”, appears to be a denial of service vulnerability being exploited in-the-wild. The flaw affects all supported versions of BIND. The internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have described the problem as follows: An as-yet […]
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