Posts Tagged ‘CommunityDNS’

(click image to enlarge) Capacity and scalability are necessary in managing DNSSEC and D/DoS. Capacity, necessary for maintaining operations during D/DoS attacks, is also necessary for increased traffic due to DNSSEC deployment. Scalability is highly important, as DNSSEC is deployed not only will greater traffic levels will be encountered, greater demand will be placed on [...]


Important due to increased traffic from DNSSEC implementation During our work with the DNS Infrastructure Resilience Task Force research yielded 770 different DDoS attacks occurred around the globe on 6 June, 2009.  On average research revealed the probability of 1,300 DDoS attacks happening every day, equaling roughly 3% of the Internet’s daily traffic.  During the [...]


Last September a study was conducted regarding the signing of the L-Root.  The study, “Root Zone Augmentation and Impact Analysis” examined the impact the signing of the root would have on BIND and NSD platforms. NSD 3.2.1 at 5,000 queries per second in a signed zone of 1 million names dropped 22% of UDP traffic. [...]


Chosen by the DNS Infrastructure Resilience Task Force (DIR), CommunityDNS is pleased to finalize its part in the European Commission’s study regarding DNS resilience for the EU and its Member States.  Officially titled, “Initiative for the Development and Coordination of Technologies and Methodologies for Resilience of the DNS Infrastructure in and among European Union Member [...]


CommunityDNS looks back at 2009′s achievements and forward to 2010.


Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community. Eight charged in $9.5m payment processor hack Charged with stealing more than $9 million dollars in 12 hours by hacking into RBS WorldPay, the Atlanta-based bank card processor, 8 men could face over 50 years in prison. In [...]


Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community. This post contains information regarding security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet, MassMutual warns of data breach, majority of web apps have severe vulnerabilities and no rush to adopt domain names written in Chinese in China.


Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community. This post contains information regarding bot herders hiding their master control channel within Google, Gumblar botnet researges, new spamming botnet (Festi) on the rise, SQL injection the fasted growing security threat and UK pushes for law to retain all communications data.


Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community. This post contains information regarding a little-known hole lets attackers hit main website domain via its subdomains, broadband goals proposed in Minnesota, Spain won’t disconnect illegal file sharers, Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant secrets.


Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community. This post contains information regarding vendors scrambling to fix SSL bug, cybercriminals down five British polices forces in a year, Swedish intelligence agency offline by hack attack and EU offers hope to file-sharers.



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