Yesterday, the DNS root zone was signed. This is an important step in the deployment of DNSSEC, the mechanism that will finally secure the DNS against manipulation by malicious third parties. The Domain Name System is a hierarchical system, where many nameserver operators are in charge of a limited set of information pertaining to...
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According to security researcher Craig Heffner, about half the existing models of home routers, including most Linksys, Dell, and Verizon, are vulnerable to being hacked. The hack relies on tricking people to visit a malicious website. From that point on, the router itself can be hijacked and the poor user redirected pretty much anywhere...
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The first top level domains with non-Latin characters went live on Thursday, just over six months after the process for doing so was approved, with another thirteen nearing registration. “Today the first three production non-Latin top-level domains were placed in the DNS root zone,” wrote Icann root zone services manager Kim Davies in a...
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Like many in the industry, we were surprised and intrigued by the announcement yesterday that Google would be entering the DNS business. The basic logic was clear: Google has a vested interest in the internet being fast, and so they want to offer a free public utility to help it be faster. Of course,...
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A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet. The action by the server’s operator, Netnod, appears to have resolved a problem that was causing some Internet sites to be inadvertently censored by a system set up in the People’s Republic of China....
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