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2960d1922008 R2 - Fixed DNS to DNS query ports?
Is there a registry setting to set a fixed port for DNS to DNS query and responses? We're in a pretty sure environment and ports being randomly chosen between 49152-65535 makes it a bit difficult to lock things down....
2960d372DCA fails .africa evaluation
DotConnectAfrice application for the .africa gTLD has, as expected, failed its ICANN evaluation for want of government support. The official decision (pdf) was handed down overnight. According to the Extended Evaluation...
2961d281Introducing the Root Access Podcast
Today OpenDNS launched Root Access, a podcast that looks at the most notable security stories and why they matter. Hosted by Security Researcher Josh Pyorre, Root Access will take the pause that is often lacking in...
2961d338.cloud passes 20,000 names on day one
The newly launched gTLD .cloud passed 20,000 domains under management one day after entering general availability. About 25 hours after the 1500 UTC launch yesterday, 20,347 domains had been registered, according to head...
2961d350.top adds a quarter million names in a day
The new gTLD .top set a new record for one-day growth, adding almost a quarter million domains on Monday. The February 16 .top zone file shows 1,343,665 domains, up 238,616 on the day, according to DI stats. That s the...
2961d327PowerDNS & CVE-2015-7547: possible mitigation
Since yesterday we have been following and studying CVE-2015-7547. More about which here. In short, this is a vulnerability not in PowerDNS products but in the Linux C library. This vulnerability could be exploited if it...
2961d353Deploy360 @ APRICOT 2016
Next week sees the start of the APRICOT Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, although the training workshops already kicked off this week. Kevin Meynell from the Deploy360 team will be presenting in a couple of sessions...
2962d186CVE-2015-7547 --- glibc getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer...
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2962d361$33 million .org contract up for grabs
Public Interest Registry, operator of .org, has put its back-end registry services contract up for grabs. The deal could be worth around $33 million a year, judging by its current relationship with incumbent back-end...
2963d274The Brief: February 8th – 15th
This week, in the Brief: the GCHQ can hack anything anywhere anytime legally, IRS hacks join list of inevitabilities alongside death and taxes, and VTech isn t even trying to be secure anymore: The post The Brief:...
2963d370Rightside moves into China too
Rightside has become the latest gTLD registry to open up in China. The company said today it has created a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise, basically a local subsidiary, in the country. This is the same beachhead in...
2963d348First registrar “breached” UDRP lock rule
ICANN has charged a registrar with failing to abide by cyberflight rules for the first time. Visesh Infotecnics did not lock down e-campaigner.com within two days of it being hit by a UDRP a couple of weeks ago, ICANN...
2963d325PLNOG16 in Warsaw
The 16th edition of one the biggest NOGs in the world, PLNOG is being held from 29 February to 1 March 2016 in Warsaw, Poland, and there are some suggestions that it might hit the 800 attendee mark! As previously...
2963d387Switching lights with OwnTracks, iBeacons, and openHAB
Christoph and I have been working on automating a few things at openBerlin , a Cisco innovation center. In particular, they have office spaces with banks of lights in them but no wall switches or controls. Instead, a...
2967d235What It Takes to Master Security (Hint: It’s Not Certs)
Currently in security jobs are plentiful. LinkedIn connection invites and recruiter calls are as normal as a daily Agile meeting. But those with career foresight know, it s not enough to be complacent. To become an...
2967d365DotMusic fails the “not gay enough” community test
DotMusic s Community Priority Evaluation for the .music gTLD has failed, after the CPE panel decided the company was just trying to exploit ICANN rules to get its hands on a valuable string. In a decision (pdf) published...
2968d282Hacker Publishes 29,000 U.S. Government Employee Records
U.S. government employees just can’t catch a break. Still reeling from the consequences of the devastating OPM hack last June, a new attacker has released the personal information of 29,000 FBI and DHS workers. While...
2969d197Smart DNS Proxy Review
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2969d187Poor mans failover?
I have two servers each running a copy of my website. The site has very low traffic and is basically a resume/blog. I want one server to failover when the other times out. Whats the dirt cheapest option to fail over my...
2969d353Cours « Internet derrière l'écran » au CELSA
En janvier et février 2016, j'ai eu le plaisir de faire une série de quatre cours au CELSA (master Médias Informatisés et Stratégies de Communication (http://www.celsa-misc.fr/)) sur le thème « Internet derrière...
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