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  • New BIND flaw poses hacking threat

    Yet another vulnerability has been found in BIND, the domain name server (DNS) software distributed by ISC, according to an advisory released by a Brazilian research organization, CAIS.

  • Fears BIND flaw could trigger worm attack

    The security community has issued warnings that a series of vulnerabilities found in the BIND domain name server could be exploited to propagate a worm attack.

  • BIND flaws not fixed after five years

    The most recent vulnerabilities identified in BIND and several other Domain Name Server implementations, including Microsoft and Apple variants, may not be fixable, and were identified in security vulnerabilities as long ago as 1997.

  • MyDomain and NamesDirect Web sites offline

    Technical problems have taken up to 600,000 Web sites of MyDomain.com and NamesDirect.com customers offline.

  • Denial of service attack causes huge domain outage

    The knock down of up to 600,000 websites of MyDomain.com and NamesDirect.com customers this week was caused by a massive Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

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