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Take notice of three serious new BIND/DNS flaws
Insight Any BIND/DNS flaws are serious business, and now admins need to address three new, critical BIND vulnerabilities.
Internet group plans security-information exchange
News The Internet Software Consortium announced plans last week to create an exclusive information exchange to keep companies and software makers that use its product aware of any security holes.
VMware patches hypervisor bugs
News The virtualization company has released a new security advisory and patch, and re-released two advisories with new patches, to address security flaws in its software.
Tags: Virtualization, Security, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Server, patch management, buffer-overflow vulnerability, Perl, blog, HTTP
High-risk Internet server exploit goes wild
News An active Bind 9 exploit that a hacker could use to crash Internet servers is in wide circulation, according to the Internet Systems Consortium.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security Management, Security, Exploit, DNS Server, BIND, Server, DNS, DOS
Setting up a dynamic DNS service
Techguide Vincent Danen shows you how to configure the BIND side of a dynamic DNS service.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Network administration/implementation, IP, DHCP, BIND, DHCP Server, Server, DNS, dynamic DNS
Using dnsmasq for DNS and DHCP services
Techguide Get an introduction to an open source solution called dnsmasq, which provides both DNS forwarding and DHCP services for a small network or home office.
Tags: Open source, Network administration/implementation, DHCP, BIND, static IP address, TFTP server, DHCP Server, MAC, Dnsmasq, Server
Apple in a bind over its DNS patch?
News Company's dilemma may be related to a third party's Domain Name System patch problems.
Tags: Mac OS, Security, Domain names, Apple Inc., Domain Name, Apple Mac OS X, BIND, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Paul Vixie
Apple fixes Bind exploit and Safari bugs
News The company has released fresh security updates just a week after it fixed 18 flaws in Mac OS X.
Tags: Mac OS, Apple Inc., Security, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Server, patch management, Apple Safari, Web Site
Find and bind key sequences in bash
Techguide Most keyboards today come with an extra row of function keys at the top of the keyboard. These function keys can be customized and used within bash, or any other shell, by binding the key sequences to a command in the shell.
Secure BIND with these tips
Techguide BIND is a DNS server package that's had a rather spotty history when it comes to security. However, despite these limitations, there are few alternatives for serving up DNS data that are as feature-rich as BIND.
Bind HTML data elements to XML data islands
Techguide XML provides a universal medium for delivering data, and IE 5.0+ offers the functionality to quickly create data solutions. One of these functions is the ability to bind HTML elements to data sources, specifically, XML data islands. The XML data will reflect any change to the data in the bound element; XML data islands also provide scriptable events.
Bind HTML data elements to XML data islands
Techguide XML provides a universal medium for delivering data, and IE 5.0+ offers the functionality to quickly create data solutions. One of these functions is the ability to bind HTML elements to data sources, specifically, XML data islands. The XML data will reflect any change to the data in the bound element; XML data islands also provide scriptable events.
Software flaw may mean more Web outages
News The major outages that hit Microsoft last week could become more commonplace because of four flaws found in the software used to identify servers around the Internet, security experts said Monday.
Software flaw may mean more Web outages
News The major outages that hit Microsoft last week could become more commonplace because of four flaws found in the software used to identify servers around the Internet, security experts said Monday.
Half of DNS servers vulnerable to attack
News While security is improving, over 50 percent of Domain Name System servers are vulnerable to attack, according to security company Infoblox.
Tags: Domain names
