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ICANN Leaders Said During a Conference Call That The Move by The US Was a Sign
Mar 17, 2014The US government announced Friday it was giving up its key role overseeing the Internet's technical operations, handing over those functions to "the global multi-stakeholder community." The move "marks the final phase of the ...
Tags: Internet, domain name system, Computer
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Network Solutions Is Investigating an Attack by a Pro-Palestinian Hacking Group
Oct 11, 2013Network Solutions is investigating an attack by a pro-Palestinian hacking group that redirected websites belonging to several companies. Owned by Web.com, Network Solutions registers domain names, provides hosting services and sells other ...
Tags: DNS Hijack, Network Solutions
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LinkedIn's Service Outage and Potentially Put User Accounts at Risk of Compromise
Jun 20, 2013LinkedIn's domain name was temporarily redirected to a third-party server Thursday, which resulted in a service outage and potentially put user accounts at risk of compromise. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom recorded that LinkedIn was ...
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ISC Has Patched a Publicly Disclosed Vulnerability That Called BIND 9
Jun 8, 2013The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the organization that develops and maintains the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software, has patched a publicly disclosed vulnerability that can be used to remotely crash DNS servers ...
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Dell Has Provided a New View That Summarizes How Transactions Perform Across a System
May 28, 2013For the latest release of its Foglight application performance management (APM) software, Dell has provided a new view that summarizes how transactions perform across a system. "We're pulling together all the aspects of a user's ...
Tags: Dell Foglight, Transaction
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Colleges Should Scrutinize Their Systems to Keep Them From Being Hijacked in DDoS Attacks
May 14, 2013Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center ...
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A Stealthy Malicious Software Program Is Taking Hold in Some of The Web Servers
May 10, 2013A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why. Last week, security companies Eset and Sucuri found Apache servers infected with Linux/Cdorked. If that ...
Tags: Web software, software, Computer Products
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A Study Shows Thirteen Popular Home and Small Office Routers Contain Security Problems
Apr 22, 2013Thirteen popular home and small office routers contain security problems that could allow a hacker to snoop or modify network traffic, according to new research. Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a security consultancy based in ...
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ICANN Has Selected Three Emergency Back-End Registry Operators to Guarantee Domain Names
Apr 3, 2013The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names within a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) will resolve in the event of a failure at a new ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, ICANN
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Researchers From Security Vendor FireEye Have Uncovered a New APT
Apr 3, 2013Researchers from security vendor FireEye have uncovered a new APT (advanced persistent threat) that uses multiple detection evasion techniques, including the monitoring of mouse clicks, to determine active human interaction with the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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BIND DNS Software Can Be Exploited by Remote Attackers to Crash DNS Servers
Apr 3, 2013A flaw in the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers and affect the operation of other programs running on the same machines. The flaw stems from the way regular ...
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APT Uses Multiple Detection Evasion Techniques to Determine Active Human Interaction
Apr 2, 2013Researchers from security vendor FireEye have uncovered a new advanced persistent threat (APT) that uses multiple detection evasion techniques, including the monitoring of mouse clicks, to determine active human interaction with the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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ICANN's New CEO Is Working to Bring Home The Addition of New Generic Top-Level Domains
Mar 20, 2013ICANN's new CEO Fadi Chehade, who took over in October, is on a mission to help politicians around the world understand the importance of keeping the Internet intact and open, and is also working to bring home the addition of new generic ...
Tags: Computer Products, Internet
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That Ensures a Person Looking up a Website Isn't Inadvertently Directed to a Fake One
Mar 19, 2013Google has fully implemented a security feature that ensures a person looking up a website isn't inadvertently directed to a fake one. The Internet company has run its own free public Domain Name System (DNS) lookup service, called Public ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products
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HP Plans to Use Its Recently Unveiled SDN Controller to Distribute Its TippingPoint
Feb 5, 2013HP announced last week that it plans to use its recently unveiled SDN controller to distribute its TippingPoint intrusion prevention system across networks. This will help to overcome the scale limitations of dedicated appliances, the firm ...
Tags: HP, SDN, TippingPoint