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Default A critical security flaw affects nearly the entire internet

An eight-year-old bug in the Internet's Domain Name Service (DNS) could be used to widely spread malware, according to security research Dan Kaminsky. He says a flaw found in the Gnu C standard library, aka "glibc," can trick browsers into looking up...

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