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3333d355Announcing Simple Cloud-to-Cloud Log Management with...
The 2014 Verizon Data Breach Incident Report calls a company’s DNS connection “the single best source” for detecting data exfiltration and command-and-control traffic from compromised hosts. It also recommends...
3333d352Adware dominating popular new gTLD ranks
Afilias .kim has become the latest victim (beneficiary?) of adware, as robo-registrations boost the gTLD s zone file and apparent popularity. It s the latest new gTLD, after .xyz and .country, to see its rankings soar...
3333d493Introducing dnsdist: DNS, abuse- and DoS-aware query...
Over the years, PowerDNS users have frequently asked us about our preferred DNS load balancing solution, and we ve never had a satisfying answer for that. Users of dedicated hardware often tell us that vendors spend most...
3334d275RFC 7475: Increasing the Number of Area Directors in an...
Un court RFC bureaucratique pour faire passer de deux à « plus de deux » le nombre maximum de directeurs de chaque zone d'activité de l'IETF.
3334d284HBO NOW DNSSEC Misconfiguration Makes Site Unavailable...
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3334d369HBO NOW DNSSEC Misconfiguration Makes Site Unavailable...
Wow! Talking about insanely bad timing yesterday at Apple s big event, HBO announced HBO NOW , a new streaming service available for only $15/month that will give you access to all HBO s content.  This was great news for...
3334d322.porn now the biggest new gTLD sunrise
.porn and .adult have taken the crown of the most-subscribed new gTLD sunrise periods to date. The two ICM Registry spaces opened up for registrations from users of the Trademark Clearinghouse on March 2. A little over a...
3335d444Saving Time and Money With Umbrella for MSPs
With the new model of cybercrime as a service, bad actors are not only increasing in number, but they are becoming more agile—making cybercrime cheaper and easier than ever. The changing threat landscape is resulting in...
3335d297Middle East DNS Forum Covers DNSSEC – Let’s Fill In The...
Over in Amman, Jordon, today our Internet Society colleague Frédéric Donck gave a keynote address at the Middle East DNS Forum where I know he was planning to speak about DNSSEC and our interest in advancing the...
3335d395.xxx to sell at .com prices to pump .porn launch
ICM Registry is to offer .xxx domain names at dramatically reduced prices, which could be in line with .com pricing at some registrars, for the month of April. At least one registrar plans to offer .xxx names at about...
3335d320Europeans digging new gTLD more than Americans?
Are European registrants more likely to register new gTLD domain names than those in the US and elsewhere? That s the view of Tucows, which sees more new gTLD action from its European OpenSRS resellers than it does from...
3337d310On the failure to monitor our openHAB installation
Shortly after enduring immense pain in getting the 4-in-1 sensor going, as explained in the story of home automation with openHAB, Z-Wave, and MQTT the sensor's batteries ran dry. I uttered a stream of unprintables and...
3339d342BGP Route Leaks Analysis
A route leak is a violation of the policies between the networks involved. In this project, we obtain routing information from differecent sources and make inferences to detect possible route leaks. These potential route...
3339d299Some notes on shared_ptr atomicity and sharing...
At PowerDNS, we've frequently run into this problem: a program has a complicated amount of state and configuration which determines how queries are processed, which happens non-stop. Meanwhile, occasionally we need to...
3339d329dnsdist - a highly DNS-, DoS- and abuse-aware loadbalancer..
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3339d323Being notified of new and changed KSK in a zone
Somebody asked me whether it would be possible to be notified (no pun intended) of new DNSSEC keys as they are published in a zone, and I referred them to Stéphane Bortzmeyer's key-checker which I mentioned when I talked...
3339d311OpenDNS Unveils ‘NLPRank,’ a New Model for Advanced Threat..
Last Wednesday, when he first saw Kaspersky Lab’s report on the Carbanak attack campaign, OpenDNS security researcher Jeremiah O’Connor had one reaction–get me the data. For the past three months, O’Connor has been...
3339d323Donuts bought .reise
Donuts has been confirmed by a German news site as the new owner of .reise, which was auctioned by its previous owner last week. The deal, which is believed to have cost Donuts at least $400,000, means the company now...
3339d298Say goodbye to DNS leaks!
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3339d332ICANN wins .hotels/.hoteis confusion appeal but has to pay..
The proposed new gTLDs .hotels and .hoteis are too confusingly similar to coexist on the internet. That s the result of an Independent Review Process decision this week, which denied .hotels applicant Booking.com s...
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