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    According to the Digital Due Process Coalition (DDPC), the growth of cloud computing has made updates even more pressing as companies store e-mail archives and other communication data in multiple jurisdictions.

  • Clouds, Networks and Recessions
    The sudden emergence of virtualization security marked the beginning of an even greater realization that the static infrastructure built over three decades was unprepared for supporting dynamic systems.

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    Amazon's new CloudFront global content delivery network integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.

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    A solution for transparent DNS failover is described in detail, and a novel solution is proposed to address geographic affinity.
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  • Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning CERT

  • 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)