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Red Hat Linux 7 and 6.2 customers that subscribe to Red Hat Network quickly received a fix for the widely-reported BIND security hole at 5 p.m. EDT on Monday, January 29, 2025 just hours after the flaw in BIND was discovered by computer researchers.
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) software was created by the Internet Software Consortium for UNIX and Linux computers. It provides something similar to a global telephone directory for the Internet¾and could be manipulated to halt, reroute or shut down Web sites. Red Hat ships BIND software as a component of the Red Hat Linux operating system.
"To maintain the security and reliability of enterprise networks, users must move quickly to put the latest updates on systems," said Billy Marshall, manager of Red Hat Network for Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT). "Red Hat Network is the premiere example of a new paradigm in computing. It provides a seamless way to quickly update systems with the latest fixes and protect vital e-commerce without an army of IT professionals."
Red Hat is the market leader in open source solutions, including Red Hat Linux, which powers a majority of the world's Web sites. In September, 2000, the Company unveiled Red Hat Linux 7.0 and Red Hat Network an integrated set of technology and services that speed the deployment and reduce the costs of management for Internet infrastructure.
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About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT) offers users one single, trusted point of contact and a common plaform for developing, deploying and managing open source across Internet infrastructure and devices that connect to the Internet, ranging from small embedded devices to high availability clusters and integrated Web server/ecommerce OSes. The Red Hat Network, Red Hat's unique management technology, helps companies worldwide easily manage it all by delivering open source products, service, support and information on-line in real-time.
In addition to the award-winning Red Hat Linux server operating system, Red Hat offers Stronghold Secure Web Server and Credit Card Verification Software for secure e-commerce and is the principal provider of GNU-based developer tools and support solutions for a wide variety of embedded processors. Red Hat also provides run-time solutions such as Linux, eCos, Red Hat Embedded, the award-winning RedBoot, custom engineering services, support and training to organisations in all embedded and Linux markets.
Red Hat is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C. and has offices
worldwide. For investor inquiries, contact Gabriel Szulik at Red Hat, +1 919-547-0012.
Red Hat Europe was established in July 1999 with its European
headquarters based in Surrey, United Kingdom and offices throughout
Europe. Red Hat Linux is sold and supported through a number of major
distribution and industry partners throughout Europe and from
www.europe.redhat.com/shop
Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for four years
in a row, was given a productivity accolade in Software
Development's Jolt Awards, was named an environment/desktop finalist in
the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards, won the editor's
choice awards from the Linux Journal and Australian Personal Computing
magazines, and won the `Just Plain Cool' award from Australian
Personal Computing magazine. At March's LinuxWorld Expo, more than 8,000
members of the Linux community voted Red Hat a
`LinuxWorld Favourite'. Red Hat Linux recently won a Product Excellence
award from Software Development Magazine.
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