A vulnerability in the Internet's domain name system left essentially the entire Web open to widespread attack, but the technology community worked to patch the flaw before it could be exploited. Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher, noticed that the DNS was vulnerable to domain cache poisoning, and the discovery amounted to a red alert for the security community. Industry experts converged on Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters and began working feverishly to determine the exact nature of the flaw, what the best fix would be, and how they could safely deliver it to the public...
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