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  A Report on ICANN 43: New gTLDs and DNSSEC

  The ubiquity of mobile devices, the shift to "choose it yourself" top-level domains and the availability of internationalized domain names will profoundly impact the relationship between your network and your network users. In this biweekly column, Ram Mohan, a non-voting ICANN board member and "Security and Stability Advisory Committee Liaison," chronicles these and other developments in this biweekly Network World column.

  By Ram Mohan, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Afilias Limited | 04 April, 2012 00:46

  Tags: comcast, DNSSEC, Domain Name System Security Extensions, domain validation, e-commerce, generic top-level domains, gTLD, icann, idn, Internationalized Domain Names, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, LAN & WAN, paypal

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  40% of U.S. government Web sites fail security test

  Approximately 40% of federal government agencies are out of compliance with a regulation that requires them to deploy an extra layer of authentication on their Web sites to prevent hackers from hijacking Web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 16 March, 2012 05:25

  Tags: DNS, DNSSEC, government, industry verticals, Intel, Kaminsky vulnerability, security

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  Security: Will 2012 be the dawn of DNSSEC?

  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

  Tags: comcast, cybersecurity, DNS, DNSSEC, security, VeriSign

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  Unbiased info about IPv6 available here

  Looking for practical, non-biased advice about how to deploy IPv6? The Internet Society is launching a new Web portal that will be a central resource for standards documents, best practices, case studies and other useful information for network engineers planning to adopt IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 13 January, 2012 05:25

  Tags: DNSSEC, internet, Internet Society, IPv6, LAN & WAN, RPKI

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  Local .au DNSSEC scoping complete: auDA

  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

  Tags: auDA, AusRegistry, Bill Caelli, DNS, DNSSEC, domain names, security

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  Dot-org domains can now be protected by DNSSEC

  On Wednesday, .org became the first generic top-level domain to offer its customers improved security using DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions).

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 June, 2010 02:56

  Tags: DNS, DNSSEC, domain names, icann, security

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  UK registry to implement DNS security protocol

  Nominet, the U.K.'s domain name registry, will begin implementing a security protocol on Monday designed to protect the DNS (Domain Name System).

  By Jeremy Kirk | 01 March, 2010 03:34

  Tags: DNS, DNSSEC, domain names, OpenDNSSEC, security, UK

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  Open-source project aims to makes secure DNS easier

  A group of developers has released open-source software that gives administrators a hand in making the Internet's addressing system less vulnerable to hackers.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 31 July, 2009 04:27

  Tags: DNS, DNSSEC, OpenDNS, OpenDNSSEC, security

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  NeuStar offers temporary fix for Kaminsky bug

  NeuStar has developed a proprietary system for thwarting Web traffic hijacking attacks that the company plans to market until standard DNS Security (DNSSEC) mechanisms are deployed widely across the Internet.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 17 June, 2009 07:05

  Tags: DNSSEC, Kaminsky, neustar

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  Study: Operators should use DNSSEC to improve security

  Various challenges are making many operators hesitate to adopt DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) to prevent hackers from tampering with DNS information and redirecting Web traffic, according to a study from European Union's cybersecurity agency.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 29 May, 2009 04:36

  Tags: cyber security, DNS, DNSSEC

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  Expert: Cybersecurity incentives, not mandates, needed

  The U.S. Congress should look to provide incentives for private businesses to adopt stronger cybersecurity practices instead of creating new mandates, one information security expert told a congressional subcommittee Friday.

  By Grant Gross | 04 May, 2009 04:46

  Tags: cybersecurity, DNS, DNSSEC, legal, USA government

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  VeriSign, NeuStar and others team on DNS security

  Momentum continues to build for rapid deployment of DNS encryption mechanisms.

  By  Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 10 December, 2008 09:50

  Tags: DNSSEC

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  DNS inventor decries security in-fighting

  Years of in-fighting over the DNSSEC standard have left Internet users unnecessarily exposed to malware.

  By Maxwell Cooter | 12 November, 2008 09:41

  Tags: DNSSEC