04-08-2015 18:01 via techradar.com

This flaw could bring down the internet and hackers are using it

Hackers have begun to threaten the very existence of large parts of the internet by exploiting a flaw that is extremely damaging to one of the most widely used and critical piece of software on the planet, Bind.The attacks are using a denial-of-service flaw present in every single version of Bind that has the potential to give one attacker the God-like ability to shut down huge parts of the internet.Bind is a commonly used piece of software that translates domain names into the IP addresses reco
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