From ZDNet:
Bad, bad Internet news: Internet Systems Consortium site hacked
Remember how just last week I told all you dedicated system and network administrators that you weren't going to be starting your holiday weekend early because of a serious NTP security hole? Well, turn your car around and head back to the server room. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has taken the site down for maintenance because they "believe we may be infected with malware."
Oh boy.
OK, so those of you are battle-hardened network and sysadmins already know why this is bad news and you're already logging in via ssh to your Domain Name System (DNS) servers. For the rest of you, here is why this could be really, really bad news.
ISC is the group behind the open-source Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) program. BIND is arguably the most popular DNS software on the planet. It is certainly the most used DNS program on the Unix and Linux systems that make up most of the Internet's fundamental infrastructure.
DNS is the master address list of the Internet. It's what translates every human-readable Internet address in the world, say http://www.google.com, into its IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. These numeric addresses are then used by routers and switches to move data from your computer, smartphone, tablet, whatever, to your Web sites, your e-mail server, and back again.
In other words, it's really important. Without DNS, there is no functional Internet.
If the BIND code itself has been corrupted, and you've updated your DNS BIND server with the code, you could be in for a world of hurt. Your site might now have a security hole on it. It's also all too possible that it could be used for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
Adding insult to injury, ISC runs the F DNS root server. This is one of the 13 root servers that the Internet relies upon for global DNS services.
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