Tagged: DNS & News
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Internet Doomsday and DNSChanger: do not fall to the Doom News
25.04.2012 On 9 July the FBI are threatening to pull the plug on a server that is costing them too much but which protects more than 300,000 computers worldwide infected by an insidious... -
Google DNS – a phone book for the internet – logs 70bn requests daily News
14.02.2012 Google’s public DNS (domain name system) – the largest public DNS service in the world – is handling on average more than 70bn requests a day, the search giant revealed today.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Servers, Search, Internet, Hosting Services, Database, Communications -
Turkish group undertakes DNS attack against big websites News
05.09.2011 A Turkish hacking group carried out a DNS attack which affected sites such as The Daily Telegraph, The Register and the UPS, redirecting visitors to a third-party site. -
Hackers post ‘Tupac lives’ story on PBS website News
30.05.2011 A group of hackers infiltrated the US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) website, publishing a story claiming that rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were alive in New Zealand. -
WikiLeaks now accessible through hundreds of mirrors News
06.12.2010 In spite of efforts to bring WikiLeaks offline, the whistle-blowing website is now available on hundreds of mirrored websites and is accepting more. -
Amazon to provide DNS services with Route 53 News
06.12.2010 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a domain name system web service called Amazon Route 53, letting developers translate readable names into IP addresses. -
DNS provider withdraws services from WikiLeaks News
03.12.2010 WikiLeaks' website has been removed by EveryDNS.net, the company which provided its domain name service (DNS). This followed Amazon ceasing hosting the whistle-blowing site. -
Google gets into the DNS business News
04.12.2009 Google has introduced a new Domain Name Server service aimed at making your internet experience faster and more secure.Tags: DNS, -
NRO tells US Govt ‘ICANN is no longer your domain’ News
23.06.2009 The Number Resource Organisation (NRO), which consists of five of the world’s top regional internet registries, has expressed its support in ending the collaboration between the...Categories: Comms, Government -
Major websites at risk as attack code is unleashed News
24.07.2008 When a flaw in the web’s addressing system was found two weeks ago by security expert, Dan Kaminsky, internet service providers (ISPs) and businesses had been warned to patch...Categories: CIOTags: DNS, -
Security experts join to fix major flaw in web’s backbone News
09.07.2008 You may be the victim of a major phishing scam that exploits a flaw in the backbone of the web addressing system and not even be aware of it – typing the desired URL directly...Categories: CIO