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The security researcher who recently discovered a heretofore unknown flaw in the Internet's core Domain Name System (DNS) protocol warned IT managers on Thursday to expect more security fixes aimed at mitigating the issue over the coming months.

A software patch released by Microsoft to plug a hole in the Domain Name System protocol was just one of nine security fixes the company issued last week. And like the others, the DNS patch got only an "important" severity rating, one step below Microsoft's top rating of "critical."

Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System architecture, has some advice for those in any doubt about the seriousness of a weakness in the DNS protocol that was disclosed yesterday: Patch your DNS servers right now.

Makers of the software used to connect computers on the Internet collectively released software updates Tuesday to patch a serious bug in one of the Internet's underlying protocols, the Domain Name System (DNS).

The sky is falling on the number of global IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, and IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the solution, executives from major technology companies said Wednesday.

IBM is merging two of its server lines -- System i and System p -- into a single family of products, a move that was widely applauded but led some to ask: What took you so long?

Cisco Systems has unveiled its QuantumFlow Processor, a networking semiconductor that has 40 cores on a single chip.

On Wednesday, at an environmental conference in the new green federal building in San Francisco, Muni unveiled its connected bus, which it developed along with Cisco Systems.

Rakesh Kumar, an analyst at Gartner. "There is an argument that users [of open source] gain access to a larger skill set than with other platforms," he says, referring to the notion that many eyes debug and look at open-source code.

IBM is buying Solid Information Technology, a maker of high-performance databases and a close partner of IBM rival MySQL.

A 19-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, has been found guilty on seven counts of unauthorized access to Swedish university servers and research computers. He is also suspected by the FBI of breaking into servers at Cisco Systems and stealing classified source code.