The security and DNS provider for 2% of the world’s Internet users, OpenDNS, is blocking the Flashback Trojan that has infected almost 700K Macs to this date. Existing customers needn’t take any action, according to the company’s Director of Marketing, Allison Rhodes.
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11 April 2012
15:31 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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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
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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
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PayPal and Facebook were the most spoofed websites in phishing attacks during 2010 according to statistics from OpenDNS' PhishTank system.In its annual report for 2010 [pdf], OpenDNS, a provider of DNS, Web content filtering and anti-phishing services, revealed that PayPal remains the most attractive target for ... |
26 January 2011
05:46 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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Internet users resolving DNS requests through the OpenDNS were not able to access pages on the Ebay UK website yesterday. The problem was caused by a bogus entry in the phishing filter used by the service.The reports started flowing in around last night, when many users trying to access any page starting with http://... |
30 October 2009
11:24 GMT |
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After implementing Conficker.C traffic detection mechanisms in the solutions they offer, both IBM and OpenDNS have counted the number of unique IPs infected with the worm as reported back from the networks they monitor worldwide. Both companies say that what they have seen has exceeded their expectations. On April 1... |
3 April 2009
08:40 GMT |
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According to The Register, one of the biggest DNS services, OpenDNS, will deploy Conficker detection today as part of a new wider botnet tracking service. Network admins will be able to see which computers are infected with the infamous worm, the company claims. Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is one of t... |
9 February 2009
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I sure like fishing and fried fish, but when it comes to phishing well, that's a different story. Phishing is an Internet-based scam designed to trick the victims into revealing various sensitive information about themselves, such as account credentials, credit card numbers etc. All the data is to be used by th... |
10 October 2007
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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
10:39 GMT |
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