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4412d483Mesure de la résilience de l'Internet en France : mon...
À l'occasion de la réunion de l'OARC (https://www.dns-oarc.net/) aujourd'hui à Teddington, j'ai présenté le futur rapport sur la résilience de l'Internet en France. Ce rapport a été produit conjointement par l'ANSSI et...
4413d487Another conflicted ICANN director?
Yet another member of ICANN s board of directors may have a conflict of interest relating to the new generic top-level domains program, it has emerged. As well as its official open meeting last Friday, the board held...
4413d565New partnership between .uk registry Nominet and Swedish...
The Swedish company OpenDNSSEC AB (svb), which is operated by .SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation), will receive a capital injection of £35,000 from Nominet, which is in charge of the British UK top-level domain...
4413d498RFC 6544: TCP Candidates with Interactive Connectivity...
Le protocole ICE, normalisé dans le RFC 5245, permet de traverser des obstacles comme les routeurs NAT, en essayant plusieurs techniques successives. ICE fonctionne en proposant une liste d'adresses candidates et en...
4413d547RFC 6561: Recommendations for the Remediation of Bots in...
Une des plus grosses menaces sur la sécurité de l'Internet réside dans les zombies, ces machines Windows contaminées par du logiciel malveillant et qui obéissent désormais à un maître qui leur ordonne, selon sa volonté,...
4413d470Les jolis traceroute d'Orange/3G
Le service 3G d'Orange « Business Everywhere » est lent, peu fiable et plusieurs ports sont filtrés. Mais il a surtout des traceroutes intéressants.
4414d513Olympic showdown spells doom for ICANN, film at 11
ICANN s 43rd public meeting, held in Costa Rica last week, was a relatively low-drama affair, with one small exception: the predicted death of ICANN s Generic Names Supporting Organization. The drama went down at the...
4415d513New gTLD registrants now at 290
There are now 290 registered users of ICANN s Top-Level Domain Application System, according to the organization. As before, there s not a one-to-one mapping of TAS accounts to gTLD applications, because each account can...
4415d472GMO to apply for .yokohama
GMO Registry has said it has obtained government consent to apply to ICANN for yet another Japanese city top-level domain. This time it s .yokohama for Yokohama, which with 3.7 million inhabitants is Japan s...
4415d506Second new gTLD round in “small number of years”
ICANN chair Steve Crocker has said that the second round of new generic top-level domain applications will open years from not, but not a large number of years . He made the comments during an interview with ICANN s head...
4415d601RDP and the Critical Server Attack Surface
MS12-020, a use-after-free discovered by Luigi Auriemma, is roiling the Information Security community something fierce. That s somewhat to be expected this is a genuinely nasty bug. But if there s one thing that s not...
4416d378Why not ZIP the damn thing
See this code in github , where I've implemented zipping DNS messages. A modified q prints the compression rate at the first line. It only shows how much compression you would get when you compress the answer . For...
4416d400Why not ZIP the damn thing
See this code in github , where I've implemented zipping DNS messages. A modified q prints the compression rate at the first line. It only shows how much compression you would get when you compress the answer . For...
4416d307Why not ZIP the damn thing
See this code in github , where I've implemented zipping DNS messages. A modified q prints the compression rate at the first line. It only shows how much compression you would get when you compress the answer . For...
4416d323Why not ZIP the damn thing
See this code in github, where I ve implemented zipping DNS messages. A modified q prints the compression rate at the first line. It only shows how much compression you would get when you compress the answer. For...
4416d434Why not ZIP the damn thing
See this code in github , where I've implemented zipping DNS messages. A modified q prints the compression rate at the first line. It only shows how much compression you would get when you compress the answer . For...
4417d483Whatmon for Firefox updated
A plea for help yesterday regarding whatmon failing on Firefox 10 woke me up to the fact that Firefox is making leaps and bounds in their version numbers. (I haven't been using Firefox much lately...) I downloaded...
4417d504OpenDNSSEC 1.4.0a1
Version 1.4.0a1 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released. Auditor: The Auditor has been removed. Enforcer: Key label logging upon deletion (#192 Sebastian Castro) Enforcer: Stop multiple instances of the Enforcer running by...
4418d493No Google boost for new gTLDs
Companies hoping to reap search engine optimization benefits from applying for keyword gTLDs related to their industries are in for a rude awakening today. Google engineer Matt Cutts said that it s just not true that...
4418d440Survey says 44% of brands to apply for gTLDs
Forty-four percent of major consumer brands plan to apply for dot-brand top-level domains, according to a survey carried out on behalf of Afilias. The research, carried out in the UK and US by Vanson Bourne, found that...
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