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Major DNS security breach patched. what about OS X?
Posted by: space-time
Date: July 08, 2008 10:15PM
[news.bbc.co.uk]

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The flaw, discovered by accident, would allow criminals to redirect users to fake webpages, even if they typed the correct address into a browser.

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Mr Kaminsky held talks with computer giants such as Microsoft, Sun and Cisco in March, and has been part of a team engaged in secret research since then, developing the security patch which has now been released simultaneously for all computer platforms.
(emphasis added)



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/08/2008 10:17PM by space-time.
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Re: Major DNS security breach patched. what about OS X?
Posted by: MacMagus
Date: July 08, 2008 10:40PM
It's not a consumer OS patch. It's a DNS server patch to address cache-poisoning.

Mac DNS servers use BIND. A patch is available for it. I suspect that Apple will push an official patch for server 10.4 and 10.5 soon via software update.

More info:
[www.internetnews.com]
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Re: Major DNS security breach patched. what about OS X?
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: July 08, 2008 11:27PM
Hmm, I wonder just how good the patch is. I always wanted to try this on, for example, a spokesperson for PayPal while he's on Oprah.



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Re: Major DNS security breach patched. what about OS X?
Posted by: microchip
Date: July 09, 2008 12:53AM
Well. Looks like I'm updating mine tomorrow. Yippie!
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