It has made headlines just about anywhere in the world, the Queensland Health Payroll project has delivered an outcome that has been lees than that desired by all. Read the rest of this entry »

We have been hearing little bits about the DNS bug that could end the world (oh alright have some dire consequences for the usage of the internet). Dan Kaminsky had found a way to poison DNS caches so that clients could be sent to incorrect servers. This was clearly a serious flaw and now there is patches out for this. Please help keep it safe for the less knowledgeable and patch your systems. This is not a difficult thing to do and will save you a lot of grief. It seems Dan took a path that many did not understand in dealing with his finding and has copped a bit if flack, I will say that I feel his approach was correct and he will likely be vindicated with this issue now quietly sliding off the radar for most internet users.

It all slipped out when a security person was speculating on a companies blog or forum and then someone in teh company spilled the beans by confirming the speculation. I guess there will be a bit of discussion on at the next staff meeting about the issues with such online discussions. It can sure have ramifications for a listed company in many places and could amount to an insider trading scare.

http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1164 to reads Dan’s own take on events It seems Big Pond here in Australia has done its thing and patched. Dan’s testing tool has shown clean for my ISP DNS server.

Lets hope that this is the end of such an issue.

See ya round

Peter

Companies in Australia are slowly awakening to the possible benefits of social networking. I yesterday read an article in a local Brisbane newspaper that said 1 in 4 Australian businesses were allowing employees access to Facebook and other social networking sites Read the rest of this entry »