ISC Patches Critical BIND Flaw
- By NetFire
- Tags: BIND, DNS, Internet Systems Consortium, security
- Date: August 1, 2015
Earlier this week, the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) patched a critical security flaw for BIND, which could have allowed hackers to disrupt large swathes of the internet. This article explains how Domain Name Systems (DNS) work and how the BIND security flaw could theoretically impact users.