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DNS cache poisioning – is your name server patched?

As many of you have probably read, there is a lot of buzz about the recent multi-vendor DNS vulnerability. The details have to do with weak transaction IDs used by caching name servers and the ability to modify those cached DNS records if you can predict the transaction ID. Patches to all the [...]

Virtual utility computing, finally a reality (mostly)

For some time vendors of all kinds have been pitching the promise of utility computing for heterogeneous systems/infrastructure. “Just throw more servers in the pool, no need to think! It’s easy!” – yea, right. It’s an easier task if all your systems are running the same application – great load balancers have been [...]

Bugzilla improvement project update

As you may know from my last post on Bugzilla, a lot of improvements/fixes are in the works. Wanted to give everyone an update on what has gone live on bugzilla.mozilla.org so far:
– Send mail in the background after confirming to the user instead of waiting for the mail to be sent while [...]

Umbrellas make people happy

Recently there have been a lot of cube moves at MoCo headquarters – IT included. We are back upstairs in building K, but the sun was creating an issue for a few of my guys. Enter Cosco to the rescue:

Kinda like their own IT oasis. Umbrellas make people happy – I mean, [...]