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ZDNet Government - Oct 11, 2008
The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC (Domain Name and Addressing …
Also tagged: security
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Oct 10, 2008
The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and Addressing …
Also tagged: security, internet, networking, dns, domain names, digital signatures, authentication encryption, richard koman, digital signature
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Jul 9, 2008
As we commented on, ICANN, the group that manages top-level domain TLD naming systems for the web, recently had several of its domains hijacked by a Turkish hacking group. ICANN has now commented that the hijacking …
Also tagged: security, attack, registrar, nathan mcfeters
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Jul 9, 2008
Two weeks after ICANN's own domains were hijacked by Turkish hackers, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says it was its registrar -- not ICANN's servers themselves -- that were attacked. On …
Also tagged: security, attack, registrar, richard koman
web technology News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Jun 27, 2008
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address. At its meeting in Paris, the Internet …
Also tagged: internet, web, marketing, domain, web technology, domain names, web site, suffix, marguerite reardon, channel management, cybersquatter, web site development
ZDNet Government - Jun 26, 2008
ICANN will dramatically expand the world of top-level domains by essentially letting companies and organizations buy their own TLDs, the Journal reports. As the article points out, .ibm and .ebay make handy TLDs, as do …
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Jun 10, 2008
The health of the Internet is what open source depends on, and few things threaten the health of the Internet as much as spam. Spam (not the wonderful Hormel product to the right, so beloved in Hawaii and Alaska) is …
Also tagged: security, internet, spam, registrar, hostgator, spam and phishing, dana blankenhorn, cyberthreats, knujon
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 29, 2008
How realistic is an attack that successfully hijacks a domain by social engineering the domain's registrar? Pretty realistic according to ICANN's recently released advisory on preventing Registrar Impersonation …
Also tagged: security, spam, domain, phishing, social engineering, registrar, spam and phishing, viruses and worms, cyberthreats, dancho danchev
News items | ZDNet - Feb 5, 2008
New version of Internet Protocol data has been added to six of the world's root servers, assuring supply of unique IP addresses. The great migration from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after …
Also tagged: networking, ip, communications, telecommunications, ipv6, ip address, ipv4, david meyer
ZDNet Government - Jan 31, 2008
Judge to MSFT: Two more years [WaPo] Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia extended the court’s supervision through Nov. 12, 2009, writing that the2002 settlementhad not …