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Imminent Death of the Net Predicted
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| Warning: the following is excessively technical, and is intended more for the
| sake of the next poor sod who types "vista dns round robin resolution" into
| Google than it is for my actual friends list. (Except for a few of you. And
| you know who you are.) Also, since I want this to be searchable on Google, I
| can't friends-lock it, so I'm not going to mention who I work for; please
| don't do so in comments, which are screened for that reason.
|
| [...]
|
| And Microsoft have broken the Internet. Again. Although, to be fair, they did
| have some help this time from the IETF.
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http://drplokta.livejournal.com/109267.html
"Monopoly raises two classes of problems for a free society. First, the
existence of monopoly means a limitation on voluntary exchange through a
reduction in the alternatives available to individuals. Second, the existence
of monopoly raises the issue of “social responsibility”, as it has come to be
called, of the monopolist."
--Milton Friedman
Recent:
OpenDNS rolls out Conficker tracking, blocking
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| With an estimated 10 million PCs infected by the stealthy worm known as
| Conficker, it's a good bet that plenty of administrators are blissfully
| unaware that their networks are playing host to the pest. Now, a free service
| called OpenDNS is offering a new feature designed to alert administrators to
| the damage and help them contain it.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/07/opendns_conficker_protection/
SocialDNS: Free Domains for a Free Internet
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| John Sullivan (FSF) invited me to present in this mailing list the SocialDNS
| project (http://www.socialdns.net).
| I am very interested in obtaining feedback from the GNU community because we
| want to submit our project to the Free Software Directory soon.
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2008-10/msg00030.html
Supporting your free software? Don't burn out
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| It’s just like any other kind of service profession. You have to establish
| some kind of limits on how far you’ll go to help people, or they will eat you
| alive! This is the main reason I don’t like service professions—I worked as a
| telephone support tech for a Hewlett Packard contractor, and lasted about
| four months before I had to bail.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/supporting_your_free_software_dont_burn_out
DNS poisoners hijack typo domains
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| People arrive at these pages when the domain name they request is
| unavailable, because, for example, they mistyped the URL. ISPs use this
| redirection method, known as Typosquatting, to advertise free domains or
| competing products. In the present case, however, clients don't arrive on the
| Typosquatter pages, but on pages with a crafted trojan.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/114706
DNS Patches Slow Servers, but Fast Action Is Advised
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| Microsoft issued a mea culpa about its DNS update on July 17, saying that the
| patch was crippling some machines running its Windows Small Business Server
| suite. Then, on July 25, it said the patch could also affect some network
| services on systems running Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 and
| Windows 2000. In both instances, Microsoft detailed work-arounds.
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=spam,_malware_and_vulnerabilities&articleId=323402&taxonomyId=85&intsrc=kc_top
Microsoft DNS fix causes trouble for some
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| The Microsoft Corp. released a DNS fix in its patch slate for July, but the
| company seems to have problems just getting it to end users. Moreover, some
| users of the DNS fix have experienced additional difficulties.
|
| So far, since Microsoft's DNS fix was issued on July 10, there have been two
| separate problems associated with its installation.
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46704-1.html
SUBJECT: Microsoft SWI blog inaccuracies
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| As you know, 3 weeks ago I published my paper, "Microsoft
| Windows DNS Stub Resolver Cache Poisoning"
| (http://www.trusteer.com/docs/Microsoft_Windows_resolver_DNS_cache_poiso
| ning.pdf),
|
| simultaneously with Microsoft's release of MS08-020
| (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-020.mspx).
| A day later, Microsoft's Secure Windows
| Initiative (SWI) team published their blog entry for MS08-
| 020
| (http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008/04/09/ms08-020-how-predictabl
| e-is-the-dns-transaction-id.aspx).
|
| Unfortunately, the SWI blog entry contains two serious
| mistakes. The first mistake is an inaccurate description of
| the PRNG used for the Microsoft Windows DNS client
| transaction ID. The second mistake is SWI's claim that
| "attackers cannot predict a guaranteed, known-next TXID
| exactly even with this weakness".
|
| I contacted Microsoft about those mistakes, and while
| Microsoft did not refute my statements, they also refused
| to revise the blog entry. On one hand, I am inclined to tag
| this as a simple unwillingness on the side of the vendor to
| revise its materials and admit its mistakes. On the other
| hand, I cannot ignore the fact that the two mistakes, when
| combined, result in misleading the blog reader about the
| nature and the severity of the problem.
|
| [...]
|
| This is in stark contrast to SWI's claims. Furthermore,
| Microsoft did have the full paper (actually, a draft of it
| which contains all the relevant technical information) well
| before the SWI blog was published. So the problem here is
| not an issue of SWI not having access to the paper when
| they wrote their blog entry.
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491392
Related:
Microsoft preps 133 patches for Windows DNS hole
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| Microsoft is working on 133 separate updates for the problem, Budd wrote.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9710490-7.html
Microsoft DNS Server Attacks Continue
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| The concept enables malicious users to run code remotely under the
| system privileges generally granted to the DNS service itself.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_DNS_Server_Attacks_Continue/1176828918
Microsoft: Patch for critical DNS flaw may be ready by 8 May
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| The cmopany has been under pressure to address the flaw, reported
| last week, since software that exploits it has now been widely
| disseminated, and criminals are beginning to use it in attacks.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/servers-data-centre/infrastructure-management/news/index.cfm?newsid=2650
http://tinyurl.com/27wje2
Attack code raises Windows DNS zero-day risk
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| At least four exploits for the vulnerability in the Windows domain
| name system, or DNS, service were published on the Internet over the
| weekend, Symantec said in an alert Monday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6176429.html
Cybercrooks exploiting new Windows DNS flaw
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| Cybercrooks are using a yet-to-be-patched security flaw in certain
| Windows versions to attack computers running the operating systems,
| Microsoft warned late Thursday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6175743.html
Microsoft's advisories giving clues to hackers
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| How's this for a new twist on the old responsible disclosure debate:
| Hackers are taking advantage of information released in Microsoft's
| pre-patch security advisories to create exploits for zero-day
| vulnerabilities.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=167
DNS security improves as firms tool up to tackle spam
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| Infoblox's survey found that the number of internet-facing DNS servers
| increased from 9m in 2006 to 11.5m in 2007, indicative of the overall growth
| of the internet. Percentage usage of the most recent and secure version of
| open-source domain name server software - BIND 9 - increased from 61 per cent
| to 65 per cent over the last year. Use of BIND 8, by contrast, dropped from
| 14 per cent in 2006 to 5.6 per cent this year. Usage of the Microsoft DNS
| Server on web-facing systems also fell, decreasing to to 2.7 per cent in 2007
| from five per cent last year.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/dns_security_survey/
Use of rogue DNS servers on rise
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| The paper estimates roughly 68,000 servers on the Internet are returning
| malicious Domain Name System results, which means people with compromised
| computers are sometimes being directed to the wrong Web sites — and often
| have no idea.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080213/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_servers_that_lie
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