[plug] Hackers get hold of critical web flaw | Australian IT

[Simon Newton]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Marcos Raul Carot Collins
<marcos.carot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Totally agree with your corrections, but is pointless to send it to us... we
> know that.
>
> You should send the corrections to the authors of the article ;)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Have a nice rainy day.
>
> Marcos

Just to be clear here: If you run a recursive resolver you need to patch NOW.

What makes it worse is that if your resolver is behind NAT, patching
may not fix the issue.

Simon N
(who lost almost a week's worth of sleep over this)



> El Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:57:53 pm Jason Posavec escribió:
>> Kev wrote:
>> > Might be worth a look for some here
>> >
>> > http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24075509-15318,00.html
>>
>> Just a couple of quick corrections of the article for the benefit of
>> readers:
>>
>> "INTERNET security researchers have warned that hackers have caught on
>> to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the internet."
>>
>> Should read:
>>
>> "INTERNET security researchers have warned that criminals have caught on
>> to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the internet."
>>
>> and,
>>
>> "An elite squad of computer industry engineers that laboured in secret
>> to solve the problem..."
>>
>> Should read:
>>
>> "Hackers that laboured in secret to solve the problem..."
>>
>> Other than that, a good read.
>>
>> Jason Posavec
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