Posts Tagged ‘service vulnerability’

Mystery flaw crashing DNS servers across the internet

Nov

2011

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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Apache exploit leaves up to 65% of all websites vulnerable

Aug

2011

The Apache Software Foundation has announced a denial-of-service vulnerability that affects all versions of the ubiquitous Apache web server, leaving up to 65% of all websites vulnerable. A denial of service attack works by flooding a server with information and making it so busy that it locks-up and becomes useless. Normally an attacker would have […]

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