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Dan Kaminsky: Upgrade Your DNS Now!
DNS is the fundamental human-friendly abstraction of the Internet. It maps names such as oreilly.com to addresses computers can understand. Yet there are flaws in the protocol, which mean that malicious users can redirect your request for oreilly.com for their own nefarious purposes. Security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered this danger and convinced the major DNS providers to work around the flaw. Here's how you can protect yourself and your information.

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