BIND is one of the most popular DNS servers in the world. It comes bundled with almost every cPanel, VPS and dedicated server installation and is used by most DNS providers. A week ago, the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) team released a patch for a serious denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2015-5477) that allows a remoteRead […]
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Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting Closed
This has been a rough week in the security industry with big attacks and compromises reported at companies from Facebook to Apple. We’re therefore happy to end the week with some good news: the web’s open resolvers, one of the sources of the biggest DDoS attacks, are getting closed. Sad State of Affairs Last October, […]
