A recently found flaw in the internet's addressing system is worse than first feared, so Dan Kaminsky said when speaking publicly about his discovery at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
He said fixes for the flaw in the net's Domain Name System (DNS) had focused on web browsers but it could be abused by hackers in many other ways.
"Every network is at risk," he said. "That's what this flaw has shown."
DNS is the internet's address book and helps computers translate the website names people prefer so
www.neowin.net gets translated to its real address of 209.124.63.212
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