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3285d279DNS-OARC 2015 Spring Workshop This Weekend (May 9-10)...
The 2015 Spring Workshop of the DNS Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC) takes place this weekend, May 9-10, right before the RIPE 70 meeting in Amsterdam. As per usual the agenda is packed full of all...
3285d358.sucks and ICANN not invited to Congressional hearing on...
The witness list in next week s US Congressional hearing into .sucks and ICANN accountability does not feature .sucks or ICANN. The eight witnesses are largely drawn from outspoken critics of both ICANN and Vox Populi,...
3286d340The Brief: May 4th, 2015
This week, Microsoft kills Patch Tuesday, Rombertik destroys your Master Boot Record, and the NSA goes to summer camp.   The post The Brief: May 4th, 2015 appeared first on OpenDNS Blog. [[ This is a content summary...
3286d329RFC 7536: Large-Scale Broadband Measurement Use Cases
Mesurer les performances d'un réseau, c'est crucial. Cela permet de savoir si le réseau a bien les caractéristiques promises et cela permet de comparer les réseaux entre eux. D'où l'existence du groupe de travail LMAP...
3286d356The Little MAC Attack
THIS IS NOT A BREAK OF HMAC.  THIS IS NOT A BREAK OF HMAC.  THIS IS NOT A BREAK OF HMAC. That being said: Let bz=blocksize(h), k=a[0:bz]^(0x36*bz): If h(a)==h(b) and a[0:bz]==b[0:bz], then hmac(k, a[bz:])==hmac(k,...
3287d306Plain English: A Simple Definition for IoT’s Future
Analysts, journalists, and industry experts forecast the Internet of Things (IoT) to be an evolutionary shift, with some referring to it as part of a second machine age. Others say it’s a convergence... [[ This is a...
3287d393Another Great DNSSEC Statistics Site For Second-Level...
Want to know how many domains are signed with DNSSEC under each top-level domain (TLD)?  We now have another site to help!  For over a year now, every week I use a great site that Rick Lamb maintains at:...
3287d366Congress to put .sucks on trial
The US Congress is to hold a hearing to look into the .sucks gTLD and ICANN accountability. A hearing entitled Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and...
3287d353Dot-brand gTLD guilty of domain name hijacking
Fashion retailer Mango, which owns its own dot-brand gTLD, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking after allegedly doctoring evidence in a .uk cybersquatting case. The company, which runs .mango, lost a...
3287d351Security Challenges Mount for Higher Education
Universities and other higher education institutions have long been heralded as strongholds of advanced and independent thought. They are the crucibles in which our most brilliant minds are forged,... [[ This is a...
3287d393Whois privacy reforms incoming
Whois privacy services will become regulated by ICANN under proposals published today, but there s a big disagreement about whether all companies should be allowed to use them. A working group has released the first...
3288d314RFC 7525: Recommendations for Secure Use of TLS and DTLS
Le protocole de sécurité TLS sécurise aujourd'hui, par la cryptographie, un grand nombre de communications par l'Internet. Le protocole et ses mises en œuvre dans des bibliothèques comme OpenSSL ont eu plusieurs failles,...
3289d334Most ICANN new gTLD breaches were over a year ago
Almost three quarters of the security breaches logged against ICANN s new gTLD portal occurred over a three-month period in early 2014, DI can reveal. Almost every incident of a new gTLD applicant coming across data they...
3289d332.porn and .adult sunrises net around 8,000 sales
The sunrise periods for .porn and .adult netted just shy of 4,000 domains per TLD, according to ICM Registry. The company said .porn received 3,995 registrations while .adult trailed slightly with 3,902. Those numbers...
3290d332“Naked aggression” or genius? .sucks trolls trademark...
.sucks registry Vox Populi has annoyed intellectual property interests by trolling a trademark conference with a .sucks mobile billboard. As tweeted by corporate registrar Marksmen, which described the move as naked...
3291d309Need to change DNS and MX records for google apps/gmail
hi, wondering if anyone can help. My friend used to provide my web hosting and domain registration, he is closing his reseller account down and he said my DNS is still pointing to his account. I have google apps set...
3291d618Where are your Slack team members at the moment?
When we started using Slack in our small team I was sold on the spot, and I particularly enjoy being able to build integrations which, well, integrate seamlessly into Slack: type a command into a Slack channel, and get a...
3292d286RFC 7542: The Network Access Identifier
Ce nouveau RFC normalise le concept d'identificateur pour l'accès au réseau (NAI pour Network Access Identifier). Cet identificateur est traditionnellement utilisé lors d'un accès authentifié au réseau, pour indiquer la...
3293d292The Brief: April 27, 2015
This week, Elon Musk is mistaken for a men s fragrance, malware jumps from phones to cars, and iOS apps come down with a nasty SSL bug. The post The Brief: April 27, 2015 appeared first on OpenDNS Blog .
3293d325Important Update for Security Advisory 2015-01
Last week, we released Security Advisory 2015-01, with text suggesting that only specific platforms were seriously affected. We must now report that this was incorrect: all platforms are impacted. The advisory has been...
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