Welcome to Andres Martinez

I’d like to welcome Andres Martinez, a fellow New Age Technologies coworker,  to the VirtualizationInformation site. Andres brings a world of experience in virtualization, security and significant overall technical knowledge, so look for the “Andres Martinez” tags and categories for his posts.

Andres’ first article about the DNS vulnerability is a very important one to pay attention to for all physical and virtualized servers. Andres takes it a step further and gives great links and remediation steps to keep your network as secure as it can be with the level of problems this could cause.

Serious DNS vulnerability

I do not know if you have heard about the DNS vulnerability that is affecting a bunch of commercial vendors (Including Microsoft and BIND which are some of the most popular), there is a lot of panic in the Internet community since yesterday when more details were reveled, do not get surprised if there is a new worm with an exploit very soon.

The best thing that you can do to protect yourself as a DNS client is to use opendns.com as your DNS servers. This is a free DNS service that was never vulnerable: http://www.opendns.com/. [Read more...]