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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

The biggest Internet security hole you never heard of...

Over six months ago a penetration tester for a security outfit almost literally stumbled upon a fundamental security issue with the Internet, or to be more precise with the Domain Name System (DNS) that we all rely upon for the damn thing to work properly, that researcher Dan Kaminsky describes it as being such a big problem because the system is doing what it is meant to, what it was designed to, and so the vulnerability will simply be repeated by every vendor involved in the DNS business.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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