IOActive (ioactive.com) director of penetration testing Dan Kaminsky advises immediate patching following the accidental leak of specific technical details of a domain name service flaw he discovered earlier in the month, eWeek reports.

The details were posted on a well-read blog July 21 despite Kaminsky’s plans to keeping the specifics of his discovery secret until the Black Hat conference in August. A hacker can use a DNS attack to redirect page requests to phishing sites or other malicious pages.
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