Congrats to the folks at Skype as they cross over the milestone of having 35 million users online at the same time, just a week after crossing over the 34 million mark! That’s certain a great accomplishment and the recent…
Mar 05
NSA Develops Secure Android Phones For Top Secret Calls
An interesting piece in the Australian edition of SC Magazine covers a recent presentation at RSA 2012 by Margaret Salter, head of the US National Security Agency (NSA) Information Assurance Directorate. She spoke about the NSA’s "Mobility Program that aims to provide secure communication for government agencies using commercial "off…
Mar 05
NIST To Require US Government Agencies to Validate DNSSEC
Our friends over at the DNSSEC Deployment Initiative have noted today that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced proposed changes to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) controls that include among the many changes two relating to DNSSEC. The critical change is “SC-21″ as explained by the DNSSEC Deployment Read more…
Mar 05
A new “Introduction to Deploy360″ promotional video – comments?
Last week we had the whole team working on the Deploy360 Programme in our Reston, VA, office and so we took a moment to shoot some video segments describing the program. I spent some time with iMovie and the result is this “promotional video” about our program. Our intent with this is to have it Read more…
Mar 02
Friday Video: Close Encounters with IPv6
Continuing our trend of providing something humorous about IPv6 or DNSSEC on Friday afternoons, here’s a view on why the Close Encounters aliens might have left our planet before really saying hello: I’m guessing the folks at BlueCat Networks had a wee bit of fun with that one… P.S. Seen any funny videos out there Read more…
Mar 02
Knot DNS – New DNS server supporting DNSSEC
The folks over at CZ.NIC Labs just released a brand new DNS server called “Knot,” available for download at: http://www.knot-dns.cz/ (Click on “en” at the top left of the page to read it in English.) As they say on the page: Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative-only DNS server which supports all key features of Read more…
Mar 01
BT Launches IPv6 Resource Centre
In preparation for World IPv6 Launch on June 6, BT is launching an IPv6 Resource Center. As BT’s Tim Rooney states: I’d recommend estimating that date for you (if you ever believe it will happen) and working backwards to devise a plan to support an IPv6 Internet presence. With a plan in place, you can Read more…
Feb 28
DNS Statistics for .EDU domain names
Shumon Huque at the University of Pennsylvania maintains a site tracking the DNS capabilities of a selected set of universities at:
http://www.huque.com/app/edudns/
The information, updated once per day, includes information about the DNSSEC and IPv6 c…
Feb 27
Want to Understand DNSSEC? Watch this video interview…
What is DNSSEC? What can you do with it? How does it work? Why are people excited about using DNSSEC? Why should you care about it? At the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks back, I sat down with cybersecurity expert Joe Klein to cover a range of topics related to DNSSEC, including a few Read more…
