* Newstin.com is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.com and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.com is for sale! *

That DNS flaw is the real deal, but many ISPs still haven’t applied patch

Oh, AFP That DNS flaw that we mentioned a few days ago has been discovered by “hackers,” and is currently being “weaponized,” says a top Internet security expert. The attack makes use of cache poisoning to re-direct traffic. Worst case scenario, you try going to yourbank.com, but instead are taken to a hacker’s phishing site. You put in your account details and bam, they now have your info. It’s potentially pretty serious. Says the concerned security dude: We are in a lot of trouble…. Everyone needs this patch, please. This is a big deal. You can check to see if your ISP has applied the patch here, and if they haven’t—mine here in Spain hasn’t—you may want to use OpenDNS, which is safe as... [read full story]                    

Add Comment
There are also 198 related articles
View all news articles about*:
*Newstin tag cloud displays all featured persons, associated organizations, related topics, regions and companies