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Popular, effective distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) attacks disrupt the Internet domain name system to target their victims HOLLYWOOD, Fla., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, announced today that it has released the first of several white papers about Distributed Reflection Denial of Service (DrDoS) attacks. DrDoS attacks, an attack method which has been used for more than a...

Secure64 DNS Authority First DNS Product to Offer Practical Solution to Reverse Lookups Of IPv6 Addresses BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Secure64 Software Corporation released a new version of its DNS Authority server that enables mobile operators and other carriers to deploy IPv6 with essential security and services like spam filtering and geolocation that are currently enjoyed by IPv4 customers. The new functionality in DNS Authority makes it possible for carriers...

DENVER, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The biggest brands in e-commerce are overlooking a critical security technology that could reduce the risk of identify theft and credit card fraud, according to an analysis by DNS security company Secure64 Software Corporation. An analysis of the 100 largest e-commerce companies in the United States conducted by the technical team at Secure64 reveals that: None of the 100 largest e-commerce sites have fully implemented Domain Name System...

DEN HAAG, Netherlands, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, webmaster promotion community WebBoosts has announced the launch of its free DNS report tool called DNS Health. DNS Health enables webmasters and site owners to check the health of their domain name's DNS records. Besides providing basic details such as the nameservers of a domain name, DNS Health also includes information about a domain name's parent servers, SOA records, MX records and also SPF records, which are often...

SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntkey Enterprise Group, a global professional power supply provider, is excited to announce the Share and Win giveaway in Russia, held by Huntkey and its local distributor DNS. From January 28 to March 31, fans from all over Russia are encouraged to take part in the giveaway. A total of 28 fans will be lucky enough to get a fantastic prize from Huntkey! How do I participate? Buy any Huntkey product in DNS Shop...

TORONTO, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - easyDNS Technologies Inc. announced today a solution that finally drives a stake through the heart of catastrophic DNS outages. DNS outages halt an organization cold in its tracks.  Your business literally disappears from the Internet and looks to the end user as if it never existed.  It's embarrassing, it's costly and it damages the reputation of your company. During the outage you are often helpless until your DNS provider fixes the...

The following article has been updated with new information from Scott Gerlach, Director of Information Security Operations at Go Daddy. redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Users who have their websites hosted by Go Daddy are being infected with ransomware following a recent cyberattack on the company's DNS records, online security experts are reporting. According to Fraser Howard, a Principal Virus Researcher with SophosLabs, the hackers behind these attacks are...

DENVER, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Secure64 Software Corporation has completed a technical analysis of the world's largest banking and financial institutions that reveals an industry-wide lack of progress in implementing security protocols that protect against fundamental vulnerabilities in the infrastructure that powers the Internet. The study of nearly 300 financial institutions in the United States and around the world determined that none of these organizations have...

Pay It Forward Series Debut Shows How To Keep a Business Website Up and Running, Around the Globe, for Less Than $7000 Per Year. Webinar Details Three Components for a Cloud Solution that Does not Fail. Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) July 26, 2012 Windward, the reporting, document generation and business intelligence software giant, today announced the first webinar in its free Pay It Forward series. "Surefire DNS Failover on a Budget" addresses the problem companies around the world...

PEPPERELL, Mass., July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today TZO announces their new "Cloud Tracker" service. Cloud Tracker will turn on the Turbo Charger for any of your Hosted Cloud Services. Many cloud providers deliver their "Cloud Services" not with a conventional static IP addresses but with an unwieldy CNAME definition. For example, in the case of Amazon EC2 services, you may end up with a CNAME that looks like this: "ec2-46-137-225-50.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com." A CNAME...