One in 10 DNS servers vulnerable

A new study concludes that, four months after researchers warned of a nasty design flaw in the Internet's address lookup system, more than 10% of the servers used to resolve domain names on the Internet remain "trivially vulnerable" to attack, says The Register.

That translates to about 1.3 million domain name system servers that still have not patched against the cache poisoning flaw discovered earlier this year, according to the report commissioned by DNS hardware supplier Infoblox.

Since early July, researcher Dan Kaminsky and a choir of other security experts have been imploring Internet service providers, corporations and large organisations to protect themselves against the flaw by patching programs such as BIND, which helps translate domain names into IP addresses.

The bane of the cellphone industry is that its software needs to be rewritten for every new model. Since new cellphones come along frequently, it presents a problem, says Information Week.

The answer is virtualisation: break the dependence on hardware of a piece of software written for a particular device.

VMware was by no means the first to implement virtualisation. But it understood ahead of others that virtualisation would benefit the low end of the server market based on Intel's x86 instruction set. Now it's testing its ability to virtualise an even bigger mass market, the one for mobile phones.

Both Apple and Asus have dramatically cut their notebook production going into the fourth quarter of the year, says Electronista.

The Commercial Times reports the companies have slashed outsourcing by 20% to 30%, affecting Quanta Computer, a Taiwanese company thought to be the main builder of unibody MacBooks, and Pegatron Technology, which handles production for Asus.

Asus has suggested its fourth-quarter shipments will be limited to 1.7 million notebooks, preventing it from reaching its 2008 goal of six million.