In an effort to provide secure Internet environment in the country, DoT is mulling to set-up a pan-India secure network with an estimated cost of Rs 450 crore, providing a fool-proof infrastructure for telecom and internet communication exclusively for…
OpenDNS and Google working with CDNs on DNS speedup
A group of DNS providers and content delivery network (CDN) companies have devised a new extension to the DNS protocol that that aims to more effectively direct users to the closest CDN endpoint. Google, OpenDNS, BitGravity, EdgeCast, and CDNetworks ar…
Scariest IPv6 attack scenarios
Experts are reporting a rise in the number of attacks that take advantage of known vulnerabilities of IPv6, a next-generation addressing scheme that is being adopted across the Internet. IPv6 replaces the Internet’s main communications protocol, which …
Qualys says hackers could reverse-engineer Microsoft patches to create DoS attacks
The security company Qualys this week demonstrated how to reverse-engineer a Microsoft patch in order to launch a denial-of-service attack on Windows DNS Server.
The proof-of-concept shows the steps hackers could take to attack Windows and highlights …
Filtering is the job of ISPs not NBN
Although it was technically possible for the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) to filter internet content over the heads of internet service providers (ISPs), the government has said that it will still force the responsibility onto ISPs.
On M…
The United Kingdom’s secret firewall
The UK has very strict laws about what you can and can’t do with other people’s data. If you intercept it so that you can see what it is, deliberately delay its transmission or prevent it from reaching its destination altogether, you can be fined or th…
Security vulnerabilities in ISC BIND 9
Internet Systems Consortium today released two new security advisories detailing a couple of newly found security issues within ISC BIND 9.
A defect in the affected versions of BIND could cause the “named” process to exit when queried, if the server ha…
DNS agility leads to botnet detection
Online criminals have evolved their tactics to harden their botnets against takedown using a variety of tactics, including fast-flux networks and Conficker-like dynamic domain generation. Yet, such tactics can also pinpoint when such networks are being…
