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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Will 2012 be the year when US retailers, banks and content providers finally bolster their DNS systems with an add-on security measure that prevents Web site spoofing? That's what advocates of the security measure - dubbed DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions - are hoping will occur.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 19 January, 2012 08:33
A new era of Web site naming begins, when Internet policymakers start accepting applications for hundreds - perhaps thousands - of new domain name extensions such as .hotel and .paris.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 January, 2012 05:37
Just hours after claiming responsibility for hacking News International’s The Sun website and posting a fake story about Rupert Murdoch’s death, hacker group Lulz Security has tweeted that News International’s DNS servers are down denying access to some 1024 web addresses.
By Rodney Gedda | 19 July, 2011 11:59
Australia has moved a step closer to secure DNS services with the Australian .au Domain Administration (auDA) completing the assessment phase of the planned transition, but a final go-live data is yet to be decided.
By Rodney Gedda | 27 June, 2011 11:48
A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday.
By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 December, 2010 01:46
Tips to thwart DNS cache-poisoning attacks
By Bob Halley | 21 October, 2008 09:34
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