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Firewall Vendors Scramble to Fix DNS Problem

Nearly a month after a critical flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System was first reported, vendors of some of the most widely used firewall software are scrambling to fix a problem that can essentially undo part of the patches that address this bug. Full Article at PC World

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  1. I have seen already code that is geared at exploiting this out in the wild, and I'm not even looking for it
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