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  • OpenDNS releases free Windows tool to encrypt DNS requests

    OpenDNS, specialists in the Domain Name System, has released a Windows version of a tool that encrypts DNS requests, which could be spied on to reveal a user's browsing activity.

  • Pirate Bay urges UK users to circumvent ISP blockade

    Notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is urging users in the UK to circumvent a block on its services, after the British High Court ruled that the site infringes copyright ?on a massive scale?.

  • 'Nuke the box' - Push to clean up 300,000 PCs with DNSChanger virus

    A campaign is underway to clean up as many as 300,000 computers infected with DNSChanger viruses that divert victims' traffic to sites that can further exploit the machines and their owners, but it's not clear that goal can be accomplished without drastic measures.

  • Whoops! Check Point lets their domain name expire

    It's got to be a little embarrassing for a security company steeped in paying attention to details like opening and closing firewall ports and monitoring whether applications are behaving oddly to overlook an arguably major item like maintaining the company's domain name, but it happened to Check Point Software.

  • Will hacker group Anonymous bring down the Internet on 31 March?

    Hacker group Anonymous has been threatening since February to "shut the Internet down" by launching a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS) on Saturday (31 March). The attack will target the world?s 13 DNS servers so that Internet users will be unable to perform domain name lookups, thus temporarily disabling the Internet.

  • Apple Bonjour protocol tamed by Aruba AirGroup enterprise Wi-Fi tool

    Aruba Networks claims with its new AirGroup feature it has found a way for iPads and iPhones to discover and use projectors, Apple TVs, printers and the like without flooding the enterprise Wi-Fi network with multicast discovery messages.

  • Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2

    Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.

  • US government websites failing on DNSSEC authentication

    Approximately 40% of US federal government agencies are out of compliance with a regulation that requires them to deploy an extra layer of authentication on their websites to prevent hackers from hijacking web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites.

  • DNSChanger victims get extension until 8 July

    Companies and individuals infected with the DNSChanger malware have been given a further 120 days to clean their PCs before they are disconnected from the Internet, it has been announced.

  • Internet voting systems too insecure for US elections, says researcher

    David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and chairman of the election watchdog group Verified Voting, called on election officials around the country to drop plans to allow an estimated 3.5 million voters to cast their ballots over the Internet in this year's general elections.

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    Out of the thousands of cool add-ons out there for Firefox, Chrome and other popular Web browsers, only a select few make it onto the desktops of professional Web developers and designers. Which are the most useful for the day-to-day work of designing and developing websites?

  • Internet Doomsday March 8 - The truth about DNSChanger viruses

    Heard the one about the FBI shutting down the internet next month?

  • The 15 worst data security breaches of the 21st century

    Data security breaches happen daily in too many places at once to keep count. But what constitutes a huge breach versus a small one? For some perspective, we take a look at 15 of the biggest incidents in recent memory. Helping us out are security practitioners from a variety of industries, including more than a dozen members of LinkedIn's Information Security Community, who provided nominations for the list.

  • Six security companies you should watch

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  • A first look at Windows 8 - the OS for everything

    The first public beta for Windows 8 is expected to be released in February, but we've been testing pre-beta code in our lab. Our overall impression is that Windows 8 represents an aggressive effort by Microsoft to deliver a single OS that runs just about everywhere and takes on all of Microsoft's key rivals.

  • Will 2012 be the dawn of DNSSEC?

    Will 2012 be the year when retailers, banks and content providers finally bolster their DNS systems with an add-on security measure that prevents website spoofing? That's what advocates of the security measure - dubbed DNSSEC for Domain Name System Security Extensions - are hoping will occur.

  • Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced data centres are not a perfect solution

    A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced data centres instead of hot-cold data centres. Companies are deploying private clouds that are load balanced between their data centres to take care of disaster needs. If one data centre suffered from a disaster, the other data centre would be operating even though it is at reduced capacity.

  • SSL certificates under fire as hacking incidents pile up

    A year ago nobody could have cared less about certificate authorities (CAs), a dull but critical part of Internet that makes it possible for web servers to authenticate themselves to other computers, including ordinary browsers, using SSL.

  • The tyranny of terrible tech support

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