For everything else there's karma

• DNS vulnerability being discovered - $0
• Working with vendors to fix the problem - $0
• Having details released "accidentally" - $0
• Having exploit written by WhiteHat - $0
• Your company being pwned by your exploit - PRICELESS

Information Security Poll on the DNS Patch

I haven't done a poll in a while and decided that the DNS issue was a good time to bring back the poll. I have a simple question "Have You Patched Your DNS Server?"

The reason that I'm asking is because I want to know just how quickly everyone has reacted and whether or not some of you think that it's not a big deal. Also, if you have internal DNS servers that don't get updates from the internet I'm curious as to whether you still patched due to potential insider threat issues.

Root DNS Servers Crippled!

OK, I admit this title is misleading and designed to draw traffic. OK, I admit it's not designed to draw traffic. It's purpose is to play off an InformationWeek post that does have a title that appears to be designed to draw traffic. DoS Attack Cripples Internet Root Servers by Sharon Guidin obviously leads one to believe that this attack was so big and bad that it crashed the servers and caused wide spread panic. The truth is that it only affected 3 of the DNS servers and they were NOT crippled, they were put into a "slow down" and as Martin McKeay mentioned no one really noticed.