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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
08:20 GMT |
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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
05:35 GMT |
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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
08:23 GMT |
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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
07:53 GMT |
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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
08:25 GMT |
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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
10:08 GMT |
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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
07:45 GMT |
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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
09:29 GMT |
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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
04:04 GMT |
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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
05:41 GMT |
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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
11:08 GMT |
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Earlier this week we were reporting that the recently discovered DNS security flaws have been patched in a simultaneous effort by the entire industry. Although the fix resolves those security issues, it may also leave Zone Alarm users without an Internet connection. The following platforms are affected: ZoneAlarm Fre... |
10 July 2008
07:51 GMT |
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The DNS flaw refers to the way web page addressing is handled on the Internet, and the one who discovered it by accident was Dan Kaminsky. An attacker can take advantage of this security issue and redirect the user to any site, no matter what address the user is trying to access. It would be a great opportunity for ... |
9 July 2008
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The most challenging problem of every webmaster represents the selection of an appropriate hosting provider (service). In many technical articles that can be easily found on the Internet are presented essential details regarding the basic rules of web hosting services selection. Supposing that you have a web hosting... |
18 April 2008
11:00 GMT |
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A group of researchers will demonstrate, later today, a method of hijacking an average home router using a plain web page infected with an undetectable object. Dan Kaminsky is a specialist in security that researched on the browser-specific flaws that allow attackers to get behind the users' firewalls.According ... |
8 April 2008
08:06 GMT |
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Researchers from Google and Georgia Tech have discovered a mind troubling loophole in the domain name system that is the Mecca of all phishing scammers. There's no way to detect such a scam unless you know what you're looking for, and know it well. It's a piece of code that propagates just the way othe... |
14 February 2008
12:56 GMT |
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Wouldn't it be shameful for a company the magnitude of Google to be forced to admit that somebody stole its Domain Name System (its most basic task is to translate hostnames to IP addresses, in case you didn't know that)? Yes it would, don't even try to think about another answer, because it's jus... |
8 January 2008
10:07 GMT |
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SomethingAwful.com, the comedy website hosting a huge amount of humorous content, went offline a few days ago, apparently because of some DNS problems. Nobody knew for sure what had happened there, so people started asking questions on the website's forum. No less than seven forum pages got full of users' q... |
4 January 2008
09:06 GMT |
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Let's suppose you have a bank account with online support, so you want to connect to the Internet and check your account. Simple as taking candies from a baby! Obviously, you load the official website of the bank and enter your login credentials. After a certain period of time, you notice that your account is em... |
12 December 2007
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On November 13 Microsoft patched a DNS vulnerability that, in the eventuality of a successful exploit would allow for spoofing. It took Microsoft more than a year to plug the hole initially reported by Alla Berzroutchko of Scanit and then by Amit Klein of Trusteer. Still, at this point in time Windows 2000 Server Ser... |
19 November 2007
11:30 GMT |
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Internet Explorer and Firefox are in a constant race for both the lion's share of the browser market and for the top dog position when it comes down to which of the two products is more locked down from a security perspective. In terms of audience Internet Explorer has little contest from Firefox, although the o... |
8 November 2007
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Microsoft's latest operating system Windows Vista was advertised as an epitome of security among Windows platforms. But as the security mitigations and boundaries set up in Vista, or in any other operating system for that matter, including Mac OS X and Linux, become increasingly bulletproof, attackers will turn ... |
16 October 2007
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Today's news that the Chinese government banned all the web RSS feeds made me search for a utility able to verify whether a certain website is blocked or not in certain regions of the world. After a few minute researching process, I discovered WebSitePulse, a pretty nice utility which checks if your page is bann... |
10 October 2007
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DNS servers have never been renowned for their top notch security system and this is an ongoing fact for years now. But, as seen on eWeek, security experts don't actually give a damn, saying that there are far more important things these days.Now, for those of us that are not so fond of techie stuff, DNS stands ... |
17 August 2007
06:41 GMT |
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The famous line used by auto enthusiasts - "need for speed" - can be easily applied in the internet field as well, due to the high demand for faster internet connections. The old dial up dies slowly while broadband connections spread all over the world. Even so, no matter how much bandwidth we are provided with we wi... |
29 May 2007
08:41 GMT |
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What is DNS? Domain Name System (DNS) is like a phone book, but for Internet. DNS translates human-readable computer hostnames, e.g. www.softpedia.com, into an IP address needed by the networking equipment to deliver information. In other words, when you open your browser and type an URL in the address bar , e.g. ww... |
26 May 2007
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Windows Vista is Microsoft's new axis mundi. Vista is furthermore the central architecture of the Redmond Company's security efforts. A comparison between the impact of the Windows Animated Cursor Handling vulnerability and the DNS flaw comes to prove this point. Just after five days since the .ANI file for... |
30 April 2007
04:12 GMT |
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Microsoft has denied that the critical vulnerability affecting RPC on Windows DNS Server impacts in any way Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2. The Microsoft Security response Center has tested this vulnerability against the complete range of Windows operating systems and has concluded that the issue is limited to Windo... |
23 April 2007
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 are taking heavy fire via a vulnerability in RPC on Windows DNS Server. Microsoft is contesting the fact that attacks are widespread, but despite this, the Redmond Company has made available no les... |
20 April 2007
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After the March Microsoft security update sabbatical, April has proved to be a harsh month for the Redmond Company. At the beginning of the month Microsoft made available an out of cycle release for the Windows Animated Cursor Handling vulnerability followed by the company's monthly patch cycle on April 10. And ... |
18 April 2007
06:40 GMT |
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Microsoft and security developers Symantec and McAfee have all warned of increasing attacks targeting the zero-day vulnerability in RPC on Windows DNS Server that can allow for remote code execution in the eventuality of a successful exploit. Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, and... |
17 April 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Internet browsing is so common that it has become a usual task in our every day's life. The great part is that for connecting to the Internet, you don't necessarily need to be in a fixed location. While some do it at work, others at home, well, thanks to wireless networks, some can do it anywhere. But have ... |
2 April 2007
04:28 GMT |
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If you have ever registered a domain, you might have noticed that you were asked to enter the IP address of two name servers. Those name servers are basically two BIND(9) daemons, running as master and slave, on two different machines. This is a commonly used setup for hosting your own domain; in case one breaks, the... |
16 March 2007
06:42 GMT |
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