Bad hair day nothing to do with hackers Domain name system problems left some users of Sophos unable to get security updates on Friday. The same issue, blamed on a mistake by one of the security firm's service providers rather than hostile action, left... ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Fri, Sep 05 2008
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