Monday, August 11, 2008

Expert reveals more about internet flaw

FURTHER DETAILS of a major flaw in the internet’s naming system, which can allow malicious hackers to attack, were revealed at the annual Black Hat security convention in Las Vegas this week.
Dan Kaminsky, the researcher who discovered the flaw in the internet’s domain name system (DNS), said the flaw was the most severe discovered in the last decade and could provide a freeway for criminal identity-theft gangs to exploit. Read More

Courtesy: Irish Times

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