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Hackers target IPv6

If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.

By Susan Perschke | 28 November, 2011 22:32

Tags: IPv6, LAN & WAN, Panic, security

Will 2010 be the year of IPv6?

Will IPv6 finally arrive stateside in 2010? That's the question U.S. ISPs and network equipment vendors are asking themselves after seeing a rise in IPv6 activity during the last six months of 2009.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 17 December, 2009 09:13

Tags: IPv6

Invisible IPv6 traffic poses serious network threat

IPv6 -- the next-generation Internet protocol -- isn't keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 13 July, 2009 16:53

Tags: IPv6

What's driving this university to IPv6? Going green

Ave Maria University, a liberal arts college near Naples, Fla., is looking to adopt IPv6 across its two data centers and all of its facilities management systems, which are used for monitoring building access, temperature control and power management. The goal: improved energy conservation across its campus.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 10 July, 2009 07:07

Tags: IPv6

IPv6 security guru fields questions

Although he acknowledges that businesses have yet to embrace IPv6, security guru Scott Hogg says that doesn't mean IT executives can ignore the security problems that the next generation Internet protocol can present. After all, he notes, operating systems such as Microsoft Vista and Linux are already IPv6 capable and thus any networks that use them might be handling IPv6 traffic without their operators' knowledge.

By Brad Reed | 07 May, 2009 08:14

Tags: IPv6

Fatal flaw for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible

The Internet engineering community says its biggest mistake in developing IPv6 - a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol - is that it lacks backwards compatibility with the existing Internet Protocol, known as IPv4.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 26 March, 2009 08:09

Tags: ipv4, IPv6

Famous tech myths that just won't die

Have you heard this story?

By John Brandon | 29 September, 2008 09:07

Tags: e-mail, game software, internet, iPhone, personnel, tablet PCs

Much-maligned feature being added to IPv6

In a high-tech twist of irony, the Internet engineering community is adding a feature to IPv6 that the upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol was supposed to eliminate.

We are ready for IPv6 D-Day

On June 30, US federal government officials expect to declare an early victory on the IPv6 front. But they admit that meeting their much-heralded June 30 deadline for IPv6 compatibility is just the opening salvo of a long-term battle to get their networks ready for the Internet of the future.