Stories about: Recursion

The discovery of a major DNS flaw in mid-2008 landed the technology in many headlines, but with economic concerns weighing on many in IT, industry watchers worry that revamping systems and security around domain name servers could be put on hold in 2009.

Despite industry efforts to lock down DNS servers, one in four remain vulnerable to cache poisoning due to the well-documented Kaminsky flaw identified earlier this year and another 40 percent could be considered a danger to themselves and others, recent research shows.

"As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity." -Antoine-Nicholas de Condorcet, 1794

I've seen the future of the Internet, and it's recursive -- in more ways than one.

A new threat to the internet is multiplying through DNS servers that are more open than they should be, delegates to last month's ICANN's Wellington conference and New Zealand Network Operators Group (NZNOG) meeting heard.

For many IT organizations, the holidays provide a welcome respite from the constant chaos of the rest of the year. (Not so if you work in retail, of course.) Many employees are on vacation, so the office is quiet and there are fewer interruptions. Corporate policy may rule out major configuration changes, but there's time to attend to long-deferred maintenance and documentation.

SoftGen has been appointed as master distributor for business process software producer, Unify. The announcement follows the vendor's decision to close its regional office.

Servers running PHP are vulnerable to a number of serious security exploits, including some which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code, as well as denial-of-service exploits, according to the PHP Group.