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The Pirate Bay is currently inaccessible in some parts of the world, but the site isn't down for everyone. Users should at least be glad that the authorities haven't taken the pirate heaven out, or that technical issues have brought the site down entirely. That's of little use to some users in the U... |
22 May 2013
10:11 GMT |
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Experts have often warned that open domain name system (DNS) resolvers are being abused by cybercriminals to intensify their distributed denial-of-service attacks. On Wednesday, the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) has released an alert on this topic.
The organizat... |
9 May 2013
14:11 GMT |
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KickassTorrents fans in the US are getting a scare similar to their UK pirate brothers, though, thankfully for them, it's only a temporary problem. The KickassTorrents domain, kat.ph is inaccessible in the US and apparently, in Canada and Brazil as well.
It's a DNS problem, TorrentFreak reports that it ha... |
3 April 2013
04:22 GMT |
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Google is now introducing support for DNSSEC for its Google Public DNS service. The service now fully supports DNSSEC, meaning that anyone who relies on Public DNS will get the benefits of the secured DNS protocol.
"Previously, we accepted and forwarded DNSSEC-formatted messages but did not perform validation," Goo... |
19 March 2013
12:58 GMT |
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CloudFlare, despite being only a few years old, has become quite popular. So popular in fact that, when it goes down, it takes hundreds of thousands of sites with it, something not even Amazon can boast about.
Granted, a CloudFlare outage is not the same as an Amazon Web Services outage, but it's a problem for ... |
4 March 2013
04:37 GMT |
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Back in September 2012, CloudFlare reported that cybercriminals were relying on misconfigured DNS resolvers, also known as “open DNS resolvers,” to amplify their distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.
At the time, the company listed the names of several companies that hosted a large number o... |
23 February 2013
05:59 GMT |
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The World Conference on International Telecommunications is still underway and, despite being held behind closed doors, some interesting things are coming out. Reuters reports that Russia has backed down from the proposal to hand over control of IPs and domain names to individual countries, from organizations such ... |
11 December 2012
04:54 GMT |
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The World Conference on International Telecommunications organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is still underway in Dubai. It's scheduled to end on December 14th and the parties involved are still discussing the proposals and even making new ones.
It's hard to know how the process is... |
10 December 2012
11:05 GMT |
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BIND, an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and one of the most widely used DNS software on the Internet, has reached version 9.9.2-P1.
Highlights of BIND 9.9.2-P1:
• A deliberately constructed combination of records could have caused 'named' to hang while populating the additio... |
5 December 2012
11:05 GMT |
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Cybercriminals have found a clever way to distribute pieces of ransomware. They’re hacking the DNS records of websites hosted by Go Daddy in an effort to redirect visitors to their own malicious sites.
The Domain Name System (DNS) allows us to access websites by typing their names instead of their IPs. Without... |
23 November 2012
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Facebook experienced an outage that left some people unable to connect to the site. With one billion monthly active users, you can imagine that even the slightest hiccup is going to be noticed and that people are going to complain and complain they did.
Still, the outage only affected some parts of Europe and it las... |
12 October 2012
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Present at this year’s Virus Bulletin conference, Kaspersky Labs researcher Fabio Assolini revealed that cybercriminals leveraged a vulnerability in the Broadcom chips of some ADSL modems to hijack browsing sessions and trick users into installing malware.
The security hole allows an attacker to perform a cros... |
1 October 2012
07:40 GMT |
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On September 15, CloudFlare experienced an outage caused by issues with an upstream bandwidth provider and by a massive 65 Gbps distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that most likely relied on DNS reflection to amplify its strength. According to the company’s CEO Matthew Prince, it’s not easy for ... |
18 September 2012
09:16 GMT |
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CloudFlare, a two-year-old company, is taking the web by storm and it's doing without anyone actually noticing. Sure, insiders know all about CloudFlare or if they don't they sure will, but the public has no clue what it is and what it does, even though they may be using it without even knowing. And that&#... |
13 September 2012
09:28 GMT |
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GoDaddy has apologized for the technical difficulties that affected millions of sites it's hosting and as a gesture of goodwill, promised one month of free service to those affected.
"We let you down, and we know it. We take our responsibilities — and the trust you place in us — very seriously. I ca... |
13 September 2012
09:02 GMT |
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GoDaddy has finally provided an explanation on what happened during the meltdown yesterday. Despite some reports and speculation, the company now says the problem was entirely its fault and that there was no hack and no DDoS attack."Yesterday, GoDaddy.com and many of our customers experienced intermittent service out... |
11 September 2012
12:18 GMT |
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Sites hosted by GoDaddy suffered an outage for several hours during which time they were completely or partially unavailable. Not all sites hosted by GoDaddy were affected, but many were.
The outage has been resolved and all sites are back up, but GoDaddy has not explained what caused the outage.
"Most customer ho... |
11 September 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Some 300,000 people may discover that their internet connection has stopped working sometime today. Those people were all infected with the DNSChanger trojan at some point and may still be infected now.
As the name of the trojan implies, it messed with the DNS settings on computers, bypassing the default DNS' ... |
9 July 2012
09:04 GMT |
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With only a couple of days to go until the backup DNS servers are shut down, there are still around 250,000 computers worldwide infected with the infamous DNSChanger Trojan.
Initially, there were 4 million devices affected by the piece of malware that redirected internauts to malicious websites each time they attemp... |
6 July 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Google is leading a campaign to inform those with computers or routers infected with the DNSChanger malware, which tampers with the DNS settings to direct users malicious servers which redirect them to sites they never intended to see.
An estimate puts the number of those infected to some 500,000. While the fake DNS... |
23 May 2012
11:20 GMT |
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Around 10 million IPs were recorded as sending large numbers of requests towards the DNS servers of UK2.NET, one of the most important hosting companies in the UK.
The organization’s representatives told The Register that they’d never witnessed such a big distributed denial-of-service attack before.
During th... |
26 April 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Yesterday, Check Point customers who wanted to visit the site, or those who wanted to send emails to the company, found that the world renowned security firm’s website wasn’t working anymore because its representatives forgot to renew the domain name.
According to The Register, Check Point representative... |
3 April 2012
08:19 GMT |
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Facebook was unavailable for a couple of hours earlier today in most of Europe but also in other regions. The issue seemed to be a networking problem since some users were able to connect and the site was accessible at times.
Facebook has confirmed the problem and said it was due to "technical difficulties," laying ... |
7 March 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Good news for the owners of the millions of computing devices affected by the malicious DNSChanger Trojan. The FBI obtained a court order to postpone the termination of the compromised DNS servers from March 8 to July 9, 2012, giving ISPs and companies 120 days to dispose of the malware.
For those who aren’t f... |
7 March 2012
08:39 GMT |
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Anonymous revealed its plans to go after the 13 root DNS servers of the Internet, on March 31, with the purpose of causing a global blackout. However, experts say that this is not so easy to achieve and provide several arguments to sustain their beliefs.
Errata Security’s Robert David Graham provides 6 sound r... |
17 February 2012
07:58 GMT |
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A Pastebin post, allegedly published a few days ago by members of Anonymous, reveals the hacktivists’ intentions to shut down the Internet on March 31 by going after “the 13 root DNS servers of the Internet.”
While many may argue that this is a hard to accomplish task, it seems as the plan is alre... |
16 February 2012
09:29 GMT |
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Google Public DNS launched a couple of years ago as a public DNS service, designed to replace the ones provided by the ISPs touting speed as the main draw. The service has become rather popular, Google boasts that it now sees some 70 billion DNS requests per day.
That's a significant number of requests, more th... |
15 February 2012
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Since they believe that DNS security could be even better than it currently is, OpenDNS released a tool that will protect the Internet connection between the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the customer’s computer.
Just as SSL turns HTTP web traffic into more secure traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS tra... |
7 December 2011
08:52 GMT |
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IPv6 adoption is slow, there's no debate about that. Still, things are moving forward and there are at least a few companies actually pushing adoption. The biggest impact are the companies that affect a lot of users, like ISPs, in the case of Comcast for example, or registrars like Go Daddy.
Go Daddy is the wor... |
21 November 2011
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On September 8th, 2011, a few Windows Live services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive suffered an outage caused by a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue, according to Arthur de Haan, vice president, Windows Live Test and Service Engineering.
Microsoft became aware of the problem at approximately 8:00 PM PDT and started... |
21 September 2011
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Google and OpenDNS are announcing that a joint initiative to speed up the internet by connecting users to the servers nearest to them has gone live. Those using OpenDNS and Google Public DNS will immediately feel the benefits of the technology.
The so-called Global Internet Speedup, is backed by Google, OpenDNS an... |
30 August 2011
10:33 GMT |
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The web is preparing for the necessary migration to the IPv6 protocol, which greatly expands the number of network addresses available to computers and devices connected to the internet. Progress has been slow, but a number of companies and organizations are working on pushing for faster adoption. Now, OpenDNS is off... |
2 May 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Amazon has been plowing ahead with Web Services, with no short amount of success. It's storage and computing services have proven very popular, but Amazon is expanding its array of cloud products with a DNS service based on the same principles it built its distributed computing offering. Route 53, as the service... |
6 December 2010
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WikiLeaks has always been controversial, but the latest big move, revealing over 250,000 diplomatic cables from US embassies, has been met with more resistance than ever. While the US government hasn't made any actual accusations, pressure from grandstanding politicians is making companies even remotely associat... |
3 December 2010
06:17 GMT |
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Their DNS service is not something that a regular user worries about. In fact it's not something that the regular user knows what it is. And that's the way it should be, at least in a perfect world. In reality, plenty of ISPs are exploiting DNS for their own purposes, at the expense of the user, and a need ... |
23 March 2010
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Google puts speed high on its agenda, from its web browser, to its web apps, to the underlying technology it uses to serve data to millions of people everyday. But it can only do so much with its own products and many times the issues affecting the performance of its apps are out of its hands. That isn't stoppi... |
28 January 2010
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Twitter doesn't have the best record when it comes to stability or security and it looks like all the recent hires haven't done much good. Twitter's famed Fail Whale doesn't show up as often as it once did, but the site still goes down more than other similar services its size. This time, things ... |
18 December 2009
03:55 GMT |
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It's not exactly a surprise that Google wants to be involved with everything that has to do with the Internet, even marginally, and so far it's been building towards this goal. From the front end, the web browser and now even a dedicated operating system, to the very basics of Internet communications, the ... |
4 December 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Last night all of the .se websites disappeared from the Internet for more than an hour in some cases and none of the websites using that particular top level domain were accessible during this period. The problem popped up at around 22:00 local time and was caused by a faulty script that was used to update the .se zo... |
13 October 2009
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Following the availability of Windows 7 client Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta, Microsoft revealed that neither of the next versions of its Windows operating systems were able to join domains with names exceeding 15 characters in length. Any attempt to join Windows 7 client Beta or Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta ma... |
20 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server (Windows Server 2008 R2) are due to come, bringing to the table enhancements designed to increase the security of Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructures. In this regard, DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) proposes a solution for delivering increased protection. Testing DNSSEC at this po... |
12 November 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Soon after Apple's OS X 10.5.5 software update was out, users started reporting issues with their web browsing experience. Apple Discussions was rapidly flooded with posts from users claiming that their web browsing had become exceptionally slow. After a little digging on behalf of the affected users, a certain ... |
26 September 2008
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Server Admin Tools contain remote administration tools, documentation, and utilities that you can install on a computer other than your server. With the release of version 10.5.5, the tools add the ability to correctly enable and show the status of RADIUS or Kerberos authentication for the PPTP VPN service. Also incl... |
19 September 2008
16:41 GMT |
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The White House released a memo, signed by Karen Evans, the Administrator for the Office of E-Government and Information Technology, which instructs all government agencies to prepare for securing the federal government’s DNS infrastructure over the next year.The document outlines a plan for the agencies to dep... |
29 August 2008
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Websense Inc., a major company that offers web security filtering and solutions, has discovered that the DNS servers of China Netcom (CNC), one of the country's leading ISPs, are compromised. The servers suffer from poisoned DNS entries injection, resulting from exploitation of the flaw in the DNS system core, u... |
22 August 2008
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Apple has released the Security Update 2008-005 for client and server users of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard). With the release of this update, Apple has addressed a few previously-acknowledged vulnerabilities in Mac OS X.The update fixes a vulnerability in QuickLook - loading a malicious Microsoft Office f... |
1 August 2008
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Robert Hensing, Microsoft Security Software Engineer, was quick to point the finger at what he referred to as insecure third party software updaters, offering a "well deserved" fail open goat award to a variety of product makers including Sun and Apple. Michael Howard, a Senior Security Program Manager in the Securit... |
30 July 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Recently, the DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky made all the headlines, first of all because of its gravity, and secondly because the Director of Penetration Testing for IOActive would not release specific, technical details about the flaw. Kaminsky stated on numerous occasions that he would disclose all the inform... |
22 July 2008
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For the past week or so, Dan Kaminsky and the DNS (Domain Name System) flaw that he discovered have made the headlights of numerous online publications. Although specific, technical details about the flaw have yet to be disclosed, the IT industry assures us that the 8th of July patch has solved the problem. Founder ... |
18 July 2008
05:09 GMT |
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A short while back we were reporting on a DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky, and which has since then been patched by the industry. The thing is that after unveiling this vulnerability, he met with industry representatives from the 16 major IT companies that manufacture DNS software and shed some light on the situ... |
10 July 2008
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