DNS server attacks begin using BIND software flaw

Posted by bob on Aug 3, 2015 2:44 AM EDT
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Attackers have started exploiting a flaw in the most widely used software for the DNS (Domain Name System), which translates domain names into IP addresses. Last week, a patch was issued for the denial-of-service flaw, which affects all versions of BIND 9, open-source software originally developed by the University of California at Berkeley in the 1980s.

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