"Internet security gurus and leading vendors are urging the U.S. federal government to rapidly deploy security and authentication mechanisms at the top level of the DNS hierarchy." read more » DiscussBury
John Leyden summarizes a recent conversation with DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris in which Mockapetris suggests DNS is still vulnerable, largely due to bickering and political in-fighting. read more » DiscussBury
John Leyden writes, "The large-brute force denial of service attacks of yesteryear have been joined by service-level and application-targeted attacks, DNS poisoning and route hijacking assaults that read more » DiscussBury
Dan Goodin of The Register writes that 4 months after Dan Kominsky revealed the DNS flaw that left servers vulnerable to attack 10% of DNS servers still aren't patched; that translates to about 1.3 read more » 1 CommentBury
Juan Carlose Perez gives an update on the Gmail email access issues reported by Google Apps administrators. Google has acknowledged the issue and stated that it was due to delayed DNS propagation and read more » DiscussBury
Mike Fratto of Information Week discussed the security concerns involved with cloud computing. He concludes "The best answer to date for alleviating the security risks posed to DNS is DNS Security read more » DiscussBury
Federal agencies are deploying DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the .gov top-level domain, a new authentication mechanism for the Internet’s DNS. DNSSEC prevents hackers from hijacking Web traffic read more » DiscussBury
