What the DNS bug reveals about the Internet

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Jul 25, 20081 min

Despite what is potentially one of the biggest Internet-wide vulnerabilities ever announced, “if history is to be relied upon, somewhere around 1/2 to 2/3 of DNS administrators will patch relatively quickly. Others will not patch until they are exploited, weeks to months later, and others will never patch, Roger Grimes explains.

Why?

Grimes offers up three reasons, but it ultimately comes down to this: “Talk with any Internet security expert and they’ll tell you that the largest percentage of exploits on the Internet on any given day are vulnerabilities that were patched or resolved more than half a decade ago or longer.”

The DNS bug reveals the Internet’s soft, chewy center.