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Sicherheits-Leck ermöglicht Hackern Kontrolle des WWW

The mishap that Kaminski had been identified, was in the heart of the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS). This is responsible, readable domain names like www.google.de the underlying web pages assigned. To this end, it maps the domain name with a number code - The IP address - to. The same happens in the background when sending e-mails. This is the DNS the phonebook of the Internet: Would now be hacked criminals there, they would change the allocation of each domain name to its IP address - and dominate the Internet. Auch die Seiten von E-Mail-Anbietern hätten die Hacker nachbauen können, um so Benutzernamen und Passwörter auszuspähen. Doch selbst, wenn der eigene E-Mail-Anbieter nicht betroffen gewesen wäre, hätten Mails abgefangen werden können: Auch beim Versenden von Nachrichten wird die Adresse des Empfängers einer IP-Nummer zugeordnet. Angreifbar wären zudem große Netzwerke von Unternehmen, Behörden und Universitäten gewesen.

Geheime Search for a solution

contacted after its discovery, Kaminsky companies like software giant Microsoft and Sun, or the Internet and network specialist Cisco. These put together a team of 16 researchers to secret to find a solution. The result was the patch that is available since Tuesday, and shares the all participating companies simultaneously. At the same time also published, established in the U.S. by companies and the state security partnership CERT warning.

"People should be worried, but not panic," Kaminsky said Tuesday in a conference call. For most computer owners should patch automatically via the regular security updates be installed. Who should be on his computer, including Windows, Automatic Updates is turned off, however, perform a manual update to install the repair program, said Daniel Bach box of the computer magazine c't.

the repair program is installed, the problem should be fixed: Hackers can not, according to Kaminsky's close to the original error. The technical details of the breakdown should be kept secret for a month, so that sufficient time remains for the updates.

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