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Dan Bernstein confirms DJBDNS security hole, pays $1,000

Dan J. Bernstein has acknowledged an exploitable security flaw in his djbdns software and has made good on a public security guarantee -- to pay $1000 to the first person to publicly report a verifiable security hole in the latest version of the popular DNS name server. ...

Tags: Security Hole, DNS, Dan Bernstein, Dan J. Bernstein, Third-party DNS Service, Domain Names, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-06

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News to know: Microsoft; Motorola; BIOS 'rootkit'

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2009: Mary...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Researcher, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Rootkits, Microsoft Windows 7, BIOS, Microsoft Windows, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Spam: You just can

Spam: You just canI have won!I have blocked the entire world except for the United States and a few IP ranges have been blocked due to the fact they are spammers from overseas...After blocking the Eastern world my problems went away!:)Yes, you can win against SPAM.Here's one solution: create a...

Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, e-mail, spammer

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress

In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...

Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-11

SQL Server 2005 Tuning, Optimization, and Troubleshooting

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this intensive instructor-led workshop, database developers who work in enterprise environments and use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 will gain the knowledge and skills to evaluate and improve queries and query response times as well as to understand the overall process of troubleshooting....

Tags: Performance, Optimization, Microsoft SQL Server, Knowledge, Operating System, Monitoring, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Storage, Databases, Performance Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Training 2008-08-01

How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Defense-in-depth starts with DNS

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation.  Guest Editorial by David Ulevitch How do you stop computers on your network from becoming a part of massive botnets? Maybe you just trust that your desktop anti-virus definitions are up-to-date. When was the last...

Tags: Network, DNS, DNS Server, Defense-in-depth, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-21

Did you hear the one about how Google Apps doesn't compete with Microsoft (from Google's CEO)? Guffaw.

Theres a side to Googles applications -- hencetoforth referred to as Google Apps -- that most bloggers and critics have never seen or bothered to even try to see Ill explain in a moment. Most of them have simply gone to something like Google Docs the word processor or Google...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, IT Management, Image Gallery, General, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Should you switch your biz to Google's e-mail domain hosting service? We did

As the acting CIO of my own small business (Mass Events Labs, Inc.), I have to make real decisions regarding IT -- often weighing the pros and cons of one approach against those of other approaches -- and then having to live with those decisions. Mass Events Labs is an...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-04-03

U.N. delegates: English isn't good enough

U.N. delegates: English isn't good enoughhuh?"Divina Frau-Meigs, who teaches at the University of Paris III (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle), called for 'setting up a culture whereby you can use your own language, and that will be considered part of your human rights.'""human rights"?I would be nice to have DNS...

Tags: INTERNET, Linux, Domain names, Web browsers, character set

Discussion threads 2006-11-01

One more reason to skip Vista (for now)

One more reason to skip Vista for nowWhy would your DNS servers be "sweating"?DNS is a lightweight protocol that is efficiently distributed, and can be run on a cheap PC too old for anyone... even a school... to seriously use. I've had the local school refuse to take *as donations*...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Domain names, NETWORKING, Burning CD, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, DNS, IPv6

Discussion threads 2006-09-11

Rampant WiFi VoIP handset security problems reported: is your device vulnerable?

When it comes to device security analysis, Austin-Tex.-base security researcher Shawn Merdinger is not a minor voice. Today at the Computer Security Institute's 32nd Annual Conference, this former Research Engineer with Cisco Systems' Security Technologies Assessment Team STAT and Security Evaluation Office made a presentation in which he ran down...

Tags: vulnerability, telephone

Blog posts 2005-11-16

HP's Threadlogs: How to Mess with a Buyer's Head 101

HP's Threadlogs: How to Mess with a Buyer's Head 101it's everywhereTo be fair, it's not just HP's sales. About six months ago I went to Best Buy (it's close to my apartment, which is not a good excuse, but it's why I went there) to get a network...

Tags: Processors, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Centrino, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-07

DNS issue hobbles Comcast

DNS issue hobbles ComcastTalk About Understating...Comcast says the outage was fixed in one hour? I had the probelm described for *at least* four hours. I'm not compaining about their service -- I've generally been very happy. But the "one hour" statement is -- to put it politely...

Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, computer, DNS, Comcast Corp., outage, DNS Issue, Web

Discussion threads 2005-04-08

U.S. tops international spammers' list

U.S. tops international spammers' list"Water...is it wet?"Next up from these geniuses: "Water...is it wet?" and "Bears...where do they poop?"You can argue all day about the origin/routing of each individual spam which arrives in my non AMerican inbox but it's pretty f****** obvious to anybody with a working neuron that it...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam

Discussion threads 2004-03-01