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Web companies organize massive effort to patch fundamental Internet flaw

Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat07.08.2008
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The entire underpinnings of the Internet are vulnerable to a major bug in how Internet addresses are managed, security researchers announced today. The problem is so big that dozens of companies and government organizations have secretly synchronized an effort to fix it. The companies — from Microsoft to Cisco to AT&T —... (Read more)

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