Patch domain name servers now, says DNS inventor
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Type of Content: Article Seriousness of situation can't be overstated in wake of flaw disclosure. Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System architecture, has some advice for those in any doubt about the seriousness of a weakness in the DNS protocol that was disclosed yesterday: Patch your DNS servers right now. The vulnerability and the attack it enables are among the most dangerous to have been discovered in the DNS protocol so far, Mockapetris said in an interview with Computerworld Wednesday morning. Read »
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> Seriousness of situation can't be overstated in wake of flaw disclosure.
< yes it can be overstated and that's exactly what happened here. this information that came out today is nothing new and it's nothing surprising. the risk of this flaw is greatly overstated. this is fear mongering at its worst once again.