When software vendors banded together to fix a major security flaw in the way the internet operates, they agreed to keep the details quiet to avoid giving more ammunition to hackers. Those details have now briefly leaked out – and briefly is all it takes online. The flaw is in the DNS protocol, the very basis of the system that translates domain names (such as website addresses) into the physical location where pages are stored. In short, it’s the phonebook of the internet. Whenever you visit a website, your internet provider stores some of the information to make things quicker for the next user who [...] ...
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When software vendors banded together to fix a major security flaw in the way the internet operates, they agreed to keep the details quiet to avoid giving more ammunition to hackers. Those details have now briefly leaked out – and briefly is all it takes online. The flaw is in the DNS protocol, the very basis of the system that translates domain names (such as website addresses) into the physical location where pages are stored. In short, it’s the phonebook of the internet. Whenever you visit a website, your internet provider stores some of the information to make things quicker for the next user who [...] ...