Back in 2010, the Go6 Institute brought together a group of experts to write a comprehensive report for the Slovenian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology about IPv6 and how the government and industry should respond. This year they were able to update the study with newer information and translate the report from Slovenian Read more…
Aug 08
Looking for DNSSEC Training? Here Is Some Courseware…
Looking for some material to teach people about DNSSEC? Would you like to run your own training session? Or incorporate some DNSSEC material into other courses you have? If so, Olaf Kolkman and the great folks at NLNet Labs have released some courseware coming out of some DNSSEC training they did earlier this year at: Read more…
Aug 07
Video Tutorial: Using FTP over IPv6
The folks at RhinoSoft recently published a video on YouTube showing how their “Serv-U” FTP server and “FTP Voyager” FTP client all work with IPv6. While obviously focused on one vendor’s implementation, it provides an interesting view into how IPv6 can work with FTP. Kudos to the team at RhinoSoft for making this video available. Read more…
Aug 06
NIST’s Excellent Guidelines On How To Securely Deploy IPv6
Looking to understand how to securely deploy IPv6? Want a document you can provide to your security team or others concerned about IPv6? If so, we’ve recently added to our list of resources an excellent “Special Publication” from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 Like most Read more…
Jul 31
SC Magazine: Security practitioners need to learn the basics of IPv6
What are the security issues of IPv6? With World IPv6 Launch now underway, what should security practitioners care about? The Australian edition of SC Magazine ran a piece last Friday called “IPv6 co-founder talks protocol security” where Robert Hinden lays out some of the main issues security professionals need to be concerned about, including: Unauthorized Read more…
Jul 31
The Case Of The Missing Hotel Stationery…
Something’s gone missing from hotel rooms these days. In fact, I haven’t seen it for quite some time. It used to always be there… and as a lover of writing I’d use it now and then. It was a fun…
Jul 30
How To Hack OpenSSH To Add DNSSEC Validation
Would you like to have SSH just automagically use DNSSEC to verify the authenticity of the SSH keys you are using to connect to another system? Over on his blog, Jan-Piet Mens lays out the steps to add exactly this, demonstrating how to add ldns support into OpenSSH. Essentially all you need to do is Read more…
Jul 27
NIST Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6
The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created an excellent “Special Publication” related to IPv6 security called: Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 Like most of NIST’s special publications, including their excellent guide to DNSSEC, the document begins with a lengthy tutorial about IPv6 and how it compares to IPv4. The Read more…
Jul 27
Warning! DNSSEC-Trigger Installation Issue After Mountain Lion Upgrade
If you are a Mac OS X user looking to upgrade to the brand new Mountain Lion release – and you also have installed DNSSEC-Trigger to have a local DNSSEC-validating DNS resolver, it seems there may be an issue during the upgrade process that you need to deal with. [UPDATE: This issue apparently only affects new installations Read more…
Jul 26
Google Now Lets You Handwrite Search Queries On iPad, iPhone, Android
Okay, I admittedly find this pretty cool… you can now enter search queries into Google on a tablet or mobile phone just by writing anywhere on the screen! As Google’s blog post outlines, you need to go to www.google.com on…
