December 2014 archive

FIR #784 – 12/1/14 – For Immediate Release

Black Friday in the US and UK; Quick News: UK ad watchdog raps YouTube stars over Oreo videos, Bell Canada employees offer no disclosure along with 5-star reviews for company app, Nordstrom test fitting room mirrors that turn into interactive touchscreens, Amazon activism is now a thing; Ragan promo, News That Fits: native advertising takes root, Dan York's Tech Report, Flipboard is the next big thing for PR, Media Monitoring Minute from Customscoop, listener comments, a talk with Effective Edge's co-founders, the past week on the FIR Podcast Network, Igloo Software promo, social media is being misused by researchers; music from Shockbox; and more.

Australia (.AU) and Grenada (.GD) Are Latest ccTLDs To Sign With DNSSEC

Today’s DNSSEC Deployment Maps have two great new additions for country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs): Australia’s .AU domain and Grenada’s .GD domain both had their DS record published in the root zone of DNS over the past few days.  What this means is that anyone who has registered a domain in .AU or .GD may soon be able to gain the increased security of signing their own domain with DNSSEC and tying it into the “global chain of trust” of DNSSEC.  To be clear, these two ccTLDs have entered the 4th of 5 stages of DNSSEC deployment where the DNSSEC chain of trust now extends from the root of DNS to the ccTLD itself.  The next “Operational” stage is where the ccTLD starts accepting DNSSEC records from registrants.  Hopefully that time will not be far away for both of these ccTLDs.  (To get ready, please visit our Start Here page to find out how you can prepare your organization to work with DNSSEC.)

Given Australia’s large size on a map, the new “DS in Root” bright green shows up wonderfully in the global view:

Global DNSSEC Deployment map as of 1-Dec-2014

and even better in the Asia Pacific view:

Asia Pacific DNSSEC deployment map as of 1-Dec-2014

Unfortunately with the resolution of our maps you can’t really see Grenada on the Latin America map, but I can tell you that it is one of the six ccTLDs in the “DS in Root” stage in the map:

Latin America DNSSEC deployment map as of 1-Dec-2014

Congratulations to the teams at both ccTLD registries!

In the case of Australia’s .AU, the registry organization, auDA, has been experimenting with DNSSEC since back in 2008 and 2010, and signed the .AU zone back in April 2014 (entering into our “Partial” state on the maps).  The news this past week is the culmination of all that work over several years.  AuDA has also published two pages of interest:

We look forward to learning that auDA is accepting DNSSEC records from .AU registrants and enters the fully “Operational” state.

In the case of Grenada, the first we knew was when the DS record was published in the root zone (seen on stats sites like this one). I couldn’t see any further information on Nic.gd, so I don’t know their further plans at this point.  Regardless, it was a wonderful surprise to learn that .GD was signed and had the DS record in the root zone!

In fact, November was a great month for ccTLDs and DNSSEC with Norway’s .NO signing and Ireland’s .IE signing and also entering the “Operational” state.

All great to see!  We’re looking forward to the day when our DNSSEC deployment maps are all green!

If you want to get started with DNSSEC – or just learn more of what it is all about, please visit our Start Here page to find resources tailored for your type of organization or role.

Cyber Monday: 50% Off Ebook of "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks"

Oreilly cyber monday 2014Want to lean more about how to increase the security of your unified communications (UC) / voice-over-IP (VoIP) system? Today you have a great opportunity to buy "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks" and hundreds of other ebooks and videos from O'Reilly and associated publishers at a discount of 50% off or more. Simply go to:

http://oreil.ly/Cyber-Monday

and start shopping! Or you can go directly to the book's page at O'Reilly at:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781597495479.do
As I've mentioned in the past, buying direct from O'Reilly offers multiple excellent benefits, including:
  • DRM-free - no stupidity with license restrictions.
  • Free lifetime access
  • Multiple formats (ex. ePUB, PDF, Kindle, etc.)
  • Free updates
  • Sync with Dropbox and other similar services

... and more!  All you do is enter "CYBERDY" as the promotion code when checking out.  The deal expires on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 05:00 US Pacific Time.

P.S. While you are there at O'Reilly, you can also purchase my "Migrating Applications To IPv6" ebook and gain insight into what you may need to do to migrate your UC applications over to IPv6 as the Internet moves increasingly to being based on IPv6.

Can You Please Rate or Review 7 Deadliest UC Attacks On O’Reilly’s Site?

Oreilly-book-logoIf you have read "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks" and found the book helpful, could you please take a moment to rate and/or review the book on O'Reilly's website?  Even if you just enter the number of stars and say something very basic it would be helpful.  All you need to do is go to this page:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781597495479.do

and click on the "Write Review" link.

In preparation for today's Cyber Monday sale, I looked at the page and noticed that ever since O'Reilly started selling the book as an ebook there have not been any reviews there.  There are a few reviews on Goodreads and several very nice reviews over on Amazon.com, but none yet on O'Reilly's site.

These kind of ratings and reviews do help people decide whether to purchase a book - and they are helpful to me as an author, too, to understand what people did (or did not) find useful and helpful.

Thank you!

Cyber Monday: 50% Off Ebook of “Migrating Applications to IPv6″

Oreilly cyber monday 2014

Today you have a great opportunity to buy “Migrating Applications to IPv6” and hundreds of other ebooks and videos from O’Reilly and associated publishers at a discount of 50% off or more. Simply go to:

http://oreil.ly/Cyber-Monday

and start shopping! Or you can go directly to the book’s page at O’Reilly at:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020974.do

As I’ve mentioned in the past, buying direct from O’Reilly offers multiple excellent benefits, including:

  • DRM-free – no stupidity with license restrictions.
  • Free lifetime access
  • Multiple formats (ex. ePUB, PDF, Kindle, etc.)
  • Free updates
  • Sync with Dropbox and other similar services

… and more!  All you do is enter “CYBERDY” as the promotion code when checking out.  The deal expires on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 05:00 US Pacific Time.

While you are there you can purchase any of O’Reilly’s other IPv6 books for the same discount. Do note that this sale is for ebooks and not for the print versions of the books.

IPv6 deployment is accelerating – make sure that your applications and networks are ready for the IPv6 Internet!

P.S. My “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks” book is also on sale as an ebook at O’Reilly’s site… if you are interested in voice-over-IP (VoIP) security, please do check that book out, too.

FIR #785 – 12/8/14 – For Immediate Release

Neville's Twitterversary; Quick News: agency staffers need to disclose, impact of a breastfeeding protest, who's watching online videos?, Netflix tests tweet reminders; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Attributes of social CEOs, Dan York's Tech Report, we're not ready for mobile messaging apps, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, Augie Ray says we've heard it all before about social media marketing, Igloo Software promo, the last week on the FIR Podcast Network, a culture of content; music from Special Guests; and more.