What is the DANE protocol all about? How does it protect Internet communication? How does it relate to SSL/TLS certificates? What is wrong with the Web’s public key infrastructure (PKI), anyway? At a recent cybersecurity conference in the Netherlands, Marco Davids of SIDN gave a presentation titled, “DANE, the next big thing after DNSSEC,” that Read more…
Mar 25
Video: The Mobile Business Case for IPv6
At the World IPv6 Congress in Paris last week, Cisco’s Mark Townsley gave this great interview about the business case for IPv6 in mobile networks: It was great to hear his mention that Verizon is sending 30% of its traffic to Google over IPv6 as well as the mention of IPv6 growth on other mobile Read more…
Mar 25
FIR #696 – 3/25/13 – For Immediate Release
Steve Rubel interview coming; FIR discount to London conference; Neville on March 27 panel; Quick news: Klout opens business dashboard, implications of AP’s win vs. Meltwater, NYT attempts structured comments, Amazon launches Send to Kindle button; Rag…
Mar 22
Google Clarifies DNSSEC Support – Opt In Now, Full Validation Coming Soon
After Google’s announcement earlier this week of DNSSEC validation support in their Public DNS service, there was some concern and discussion in various DNSSEC mailing lists about the fact that DNSSEC validation was not being performed by default and required a client to request validation. Folks at Google clarified that this was just part of Read more…
Mar 21
On Forgetting My Phone And Being Completely Disconnected…
On Forgetting My Phone And Being Completely Disconnected… by Dan York
Mar 20
Any Tips On How To Recover Data From An External Disk on Mac OS X?
Any Tips On How To Recover Data From An External Disk on Mac OS X? by Dan York
Mar 20
“Introduction To DNSSEC” Animated Videos Uploaded To YouTube
With the buzz over Google’s news about DNSSEC yesterday, we’ve seen a large surge of visitors to our DNSSEC-related resources and in the midst of that someone pointed out that the excellent introduction to DNSSEC video from Shinkuro, Inc., was no longer available on YouTube. Given that we work well with the Shinkuro team, we Read more…
Mar 20
Video – DNSSEC Deployment: From End-Customer To Content (ION San Diego)
What do we need to do to get DNSSEC widely deployed? How can we help accelerate the deployment? What is the benefit to network operators and content providers? These were among the questions answered in a highly interactive panel at the ION Conference San Diego on December 11, 2012. There was a good dialogue between Read more…
Mar 19
Google Public DNS – DNSSEC Validation
Google provides DNSSEC validation through the use of their “Google Public DNS” servers. If your local DNS resolvers do not perform DNSSEC validation, you can change your operating system to point to the following DNS servers operated by Google for either (or both) IPv4 and IPv6: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 2001:4860:4860::8888 2001:4860:4860::8844 Once configured, all future DNS Read more…
Mar 19
Huge News For Internet Security – Google Public DNS Is Now Performing DNSSEC Validation!
In a huge step forward for Internet security today, Google announced that Google’s “Public DNS” service is now performing DNSSEC validation. What this means is that anyone using Google’s DNS servers (and anyone can do so – see below) can now get the increased security that comes with DNSSEC. (Learn more about the value of DNSSEC on Read more…
