Posts Tagged ‘ISP’

DNS Bug is Fixed to Patch the Internet

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Makers of the software used to connect computers on the Internet collectively released software updates Tuesday to patch a serious bug in one of the Internet’s underlying protocols, the Domain Name System (DNS). The bug was discovered “by complete accident,” by Dan Kaminsky, a researcher with security vendor IOActive. Kaminsky, a former employee of Cisco Systems.

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Verizon to Block Access to Whole Usenet

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Verizon has described the details of the agreement it and other ISPs signed last week to block access to Usenet groups that have been caught trafficking child pornography. But instead of just blocking a few of the usenet groups that had been implicitly named they decided to block all of the groups.

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