OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : bind (OVMSA-2018-0252)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Fix CVE-2018-5740 - Fix CVE-2017-3145 - Change EDNS flags only after successful query 1416035 - Fix crash in ldap driver at bind-sdb stop 1426626 - Fix CVE-2017-3142, CVE-2017-3143 - Update root serve...

bind security and bug fix update

32:9.9.4-50.1 - Bump again above RHEL-7.4 32:9.9.4-38.5 - Fix CVE-2017-3142 and CVE-2017-3143 32:9.9.4-38.4 - Update root servers and trust anchor 1459649...

Root Servers Were Not Targets of 2015 DDoS Attack

When the Internet’s root name servers are in the line of fire of a DDoS attack, people start to sweat, and with good reason since they are the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. The most recent attacks against the root servers happened over a two-day period starting last Nov. 30,...

Someone Just Tried to Take Down Internet's Backbone with 5 Million Queries/Sec

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It's Official: DNSSEC Fully Updated

Two years after a major flaw was exposed in the Internet’s Domain Name System DNS, a major upgrade to the infrastructure protocol that fixes that weakness is now up and running in all of the Internet root servers. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

DNSSEC Now on All Root Servers

Yesterday Wednesday the last of the 13 authoritative root servers for the domain name system switched over to the DNS Security Extensions DNSSEC security protocol. DNSSEC is intended to prevent DNS exploits such as cache poisoning. All 13 root servers are now serving a signed version of the root...