Tour de France 2008 – Stage XXI

Tonight is stage 21 (Étampes to Paris Champs-Élysées) 143 km

Stage Details:

• stage 21 – Étampes > Paris Champs-Élysées 143 km [www.letour.fr]
• Stage 20 – Cérilly > Saint-Amand-Montrond [SBS]
• Stage 21 – Sunday, July 27: Étampes – Paris/Champs Élysées, 143km [CyclingNews]
• Stage 21 • ÉTAMPES > PARIS CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES • 143 km [EuroSport]
• Race wrap-up and Stage 21 preview: Étampes → Paris (Champs-Élysees), 143k (flat) [SteepHill]
• Route Tour de France 08, Étape 21: Etampes – Paris Champs-Élysées [bikemap.net]

Climbs:
Cat 4 – at:48.0 km – Côte de Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse – h:182m
Cat 4 – at:51.5 km – Côte de Châteaufort – h:186m

Le parcours 2008 : découvrez l’étape 21
(Tour de France YouTube Channel)

Live:
Live Race Data [Polar]
Live Telemetry [SRM]
Current local time in Paris (World Clock)
Live Audio|AudioPlayer [EuroSport]
Tour de France – Live Tracker [UBI Labs]
stage 21 – Étampes > Paris Champs-Élysées 143 km live [www.letour.fr]
Stage 21 – Sunday, July 27: Étampes – Paris/Champs Élysées, 143km Complete live report [CyclingNews]
Tour de France – *Etampes – Paris Champs-Elysées “live match” [Eurosport Yahoo!]
Live commentary (flash) [SBS]
TdFblog (Frank Steele’s) [Twitter]
Boulder Report Live Blog [bicycling.com]
SBS: Tour de France 2008 Forum [SBS]

Results:

17:44 – Steegmans Wins The Stage!
Gert Steegmans has won his second stage of the Tour de France. He held off a late charge from Gerald Ciolek and Oscar Freire.
– www.letour.fr

Places for stage 21:
01 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 3.51.38
02 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia
03 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank
04 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence – Lotto
05 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole
06 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30
07 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner
08 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner
09 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis – Le Crédit par Téléphone
10 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld

17:59 – Sastre Wins By 58 Seconds
The CSC team had controlled the peloton all day but in the final run to the line, the yellow jersey found himself in a group that finished 14″ behind the stage winner. Cadel Evans was seven seconds ahead. It means that, for the second successive year, the runner-up is less than a minute behind a Spanish winner.
The top 10 of the 2008 Tour de France is:
1. Carlos Sastre (ESP) CSC – 3,559.5km in 87h52’52″ (40.490km/h)
2. Cadel Evans (AUS) SIL at 58″
3. Bernhard Kohl (AUT) GST at 1’13″
4. Denis Menchov (RUS) RAB at 2’10″
5. Christian Vande Velde (USA) TSL at 3’05″
6. Frank Schleck (LUX) CSC at 4’28″
7. Samuel Sanchez (ESP) EUS at 6’25″
8. Kim Kirchen (LUX) THR at 6’55″
9. Alejandro Valverde (ESP) GCE at 7’12″
10. Tadej Valjavec (SLO) ALM at 9’05″
– www.letour.fr

Tour de Web:
(What others have to say about this stage)
[1] Stage 21 – Sunday, July 27: Étampes – Paris/Champs Élysées, 143km [Cycling News]
[2] RESULTS:Stage 21 – Sunday, July 27: Étampes – Paris/Champs Élysées, 143km [Cycling News]
[3] SBS Tour de France 2008: Stage 21 – Étampes > Paris Champs-Élysées [SBS]
[4] Stage 21 Photos [Graham Watson]
[5] — [TDF Blog]
[6] Stage 21 result: Gert Steegmans saves the Tour for his QuickStep team by claiming the sprint finish on the last day [Steephill.tv]
[7] — [The Tour de France for the Rest of Us]
[8] Stage 21 as it happened [BBC]
[9] Sastre wins Tour de France crown [BBC]
[10] Stage 21: (delay) [Spare Cycles]
[11] Tour de France ‘08 Stage 21 Link Roundup [Spare Cycles]
[12] — [Tour de France Lanterne Rouge]
[13] France, with a Spanish accent [VeloNews]
[14] Stage 21 • ÉTAMPES > PARIS CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES • 143 km [EuroSport]
[15] Daily Video – Stage 21 [Versus]

New DNS exploit now in the wild

Dan Kaminsky’s DNS vulnerability exploit is now in the wild. Ensure that all your DNS clients, name-servers and the namesevers have been patched.

Impact
An attacker with the ability to conduct a successful cache poisoning attack can cause a nameserver’s clients to contact the incorrect, and possibly malicious, hosts for particular services. Consequently, web traffic, email, and other important network data can be redirected to systems under the attacker’s control. — US-CERT

How to check your DNS?
i.) DoxPara Research DNS Checker
ii.) DNS-OARC’s Web-based DNS Randomness Test

Apple still have not released a patch!

Apple Punts, Doesn’t Patch Yet — Apple has yet to patch this vulnerability, which affects both Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. While individual computers that look up DNS are vulnerable, servers are far more at risk due to the nature and scope of the attack. — TidBits

Resources
[1] Vulnerability Note VU#800113 Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning (2008-Jul-08 ) [US-CERT]
[2] Recursive DNS Cache Auditing Resource (2008-Jul-25) [SANS]
[3] DNS bug – observations (2008-Jul-25) [SANS]
[4] Apple Fails to Patch Critical Exploited DNS Flaw (2008-Jul-24) [TidBits]
[5] New DNS exploit now in the wild and having a blast (2008-Jul-26) [ars technica]
[6] Kerfuffle erupts as DNS flaw described (2008-Jul-22) [SecurityFocus]
[7] Metasploit releases double-whammy for DNS (2008-Jul-24) [SecurityFocus]
[8] Increased Threat for DNS Spoofing Vulnerability (2008-Jul-25) [MSRC]
[9] Lesson From the DNS Bug: Patching Isn’t Enough (2008-Jul-23) [WIRED]