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Information Week: Security--Beyond The Firewall
Network administrators need to look at hardware, devices, apps, access rights, and a variety of other factors.
ISC now says that upgrading BIND is "strongly recommended" due to vulnerabilities in earlier versions.
"DNS, and in particular, BIND has been and will continue to be vital to the success of the Internet, wireless computing, and mobile connectivity. Also, BIND is important in facilitating the transition to IPv6. Therefore, community support is critical to assure BIND remains at the forefront of standards and continues to be widely available." -Bernard Volz, CTO of Ericsson's DNS & DHCP Development group and member of the ISC BIND community.
Security researchers have discovered several serious new vulnerabilities in the BIND software that runs on the vast majority of the Internet's DNS servers. The most serious flaw, a buffer overrun in both BIND 4 and BIND 8, enables an attacker ... (eweek.com)
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