Next week (June 23-26, 2014), we’ll be at ICANN 50 in London for the usual excellent DNSSEC sessions, two of which will be streamed live for remote participants. The three activities are… DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide First up on Monday, June 23, 2014, in the late afternoon from 17:00 – 18:30 BST (London Read more…
Jun 17
TDYR #159 – Can You Come Up With A Better Topic Name Than Anti-Spoofing?
TDYR #159 – Can You Come Up With A Better Topic Name Than Anti-Spoofing? by Dan York
Jun 17
Cloud Provider Digital Ocean Announces IPv6 Support In Singapore
We were very pleased to see the news that cloud platform provider Digital Ocean announced IPv6 support in their Singapore data center. The announcement says in part: Since our launch, IPv6 has been one of the most requested features in our community. Today we are excited to announce that public IPv6 addresses are now available Read more…
Jun 16
Critical Need To Update Tweetdeck (If You Haven’t Already)
If you are a user of Tweetdeck, as I am, and you somehow missed the security warnings from last week, you need to update Tweetdeck! There is a critical security vulnerability that allows an attacker to remotely execute code on…
Jun 16
What Shall We Call Our New Topic Area On “Anti-Spoofing” Of IP Addresses?
We need your help. We are struggling with what to name the new topic area we are planning to launch related to preventing the “spoofing” of IP addresses. In routing security circles this topic is generally referred to as “anti-spoofing” and we’ve talked about it ourselves that way such as in our report on an Read more…
Jun 16
FIR #760 – 6/16/14 – For Immediate Release
Upcoming speaking engagements; Mobile Mind Shift book review forthcoming; Quick News: Kit Kat gives rail passengers in Japan a break, Global PR agencies endorse Wikipedia policies, Jaguar XF owner’s novel protest, Robert Peston vs. PR; Ragan promo; New…
Jun 13
IPv4 Exhaustion Gets Real – Microsoft Runs Out Of U.S. Addresses For Azure Cloud – Time To Move To IPv6!
BOOM! IPv4 address exhaustion just hit home really hard for a good number of people. They set up virtual machines (VMs) in a US region on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud and now suddenly find that when they use those VMs to access other websites they are treated as if they are from a country outside the US. Read more…
Jun 13
TDYR #158 – It Is So Easy NOT To Run
It is so easy to choose NOT to run or do any other kind of exercise. This morning I didn’t want to go for a run… but that is a trap that is so easy to fall into. In this episode I talk about that and the need to treat one’s body as sacred and impor…
Jun 12
CIRA Makes DNSSEC Available For .CA Through Registrars
Great news today for our friends up north in Canada – they can now sign their .CA domains with DNSSEC! As the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) said in a news release yesterday, they are making the Internet safer for all Canadians and noted: DNSSEC builds a “chain of trust” between users and the websites they Read more…
Jun 12
GigaOm: Cloud Providers Need To Get IPv6!
Over on GigaOm today we were delighted to see the article “With billions of devices coming online, cloud providers better get with IPv6 program“. In that article, author Barb Darrow writes: As we enter the internet of things era, with millions; check that, billions of devices coming online, we’re going to need a lot more Read more…
