Category: DNS

Device & Network Level Protection are Not Enough

Major Outage Highlights The Necessity Of Reliable DNS

A major internet outage yesterday illustrated how a failure of the DNS can result in widespread disruption of internet traffic.[...]

Secure64 Itanium DNS Software not Vulnerable to NXNSAttack

As a new attack emerged known as ‘NXNSAttack’, Secure64's SourceT customers were already protected.[...]

Why I’m long DNS

As most know the Domain Name System (DNS) translates domain names (i.e., www.google.com) into IP addresses. This system, which has been a critical part of the internet infrastructure since the early days, is now poised to experience a dramatic increase in traffic due to emerging industry trends.[...]

Avoid the DNS outage that could cost you the C-suite

A DNS outage will take your business offline - and potentially your job with it. It is time to make DNS security a critical focus point for companies.[...]

Dyn, BIND and DNS Strategy

On October 21, 2016, leading websites including Twitter, Netflix and Spotify were severely interrupted by an attack on DNS hosting provider Dyn.[...]

Blocking Attacks from the Incredibly Insecure Internet of Things (IIIoT)

In the wake of the massive attack against DNS provider Dyn, we as a security industry need to ask ourselves “what the hell are we going to do about the usage of dumb, secure-less IOT devices to become a bot army?”[...]

DNS Hosting – the problem with centralization

Recently, Robert Reich argued that the centralization of DNS on the “platforms of giants” has led to the vulnerability of the internet, as witnessed by the massive assault on DNS provider Dyn.[...]

Performing a signing algorithm rollover is not for the faint of heart

We are proud of our DNSSEC heritage here at Secure64. We launched the first fully automated DNSSEC signing appliance in 2008, just weeks after security researcher Dan Kaminsky made public the flaws in the DNS protocol that DNSSEC addresses.[...]

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