Latest Domain Name System Security Extensions Stories

DNS Made Easy, the leading provider of anycast managed DNS hosting, has requested that all responsible members of the Internet community make a concerted effort to close down the open DNS recursive resolvers that are frequently used for packet amplification distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Reston, VA (PRWEB) April 02, 2013 DNS Made Easy, the leading provider of anycast managed DNS hosting, has requested that all responsible members of the Internet community make a concerted...

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...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Google has said that its Chrome Web browser users are at risk of phishing attacks due to Certificate Authority issues. Google wrote in a blog post titled "Enhancing digital certificate security" that it first detected the problem using Chrome's certificate pinning on December 24th. Criminals used fake credentials to create a website that claimed to be part of the Google+ social media network. They were able to exploit ID...

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...

LEIDEN, The Netherlands, August 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The amount of DNSSEC-secured .com- and .net domain names has doubled overnight, as Dutch domain provider TransIP signs almost all of its clients' .com, .net, .nl, .eu and .be domain names. DNSSEC (DNS Security Extension) is an addition to the existing DNS-protocol and protects domain name owners and internet users against the many exploits of the DNS-protocol. In the past few days, the amount of secured .com...

DENVER, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Secure64 Software Corporation offers a suite of secure DNS products that enable companies to increase the "genetic diversity" of their DNS infrastructure and greatly improve their resistance to dangerous DNS threats. DNS threats have garnered numerous headlines in recent years, including more than a dozen major vulnerabilities in the widely-deployed BIND DNS software that is also used in most commercial DNS appliances. Each of these...

New BlueCat Networks Appliance Models Integrate with Thales nShield Hardware Security Module (HSM) Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) June 11, 2012 BlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence™ company, today announced that its DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management appliances are now integrated with the award-winning Thales nShield Connect hardware security module (HSM) to deliver simple and secure DNSSEC key management for organizations that demand the highest levels of security. “Security is one of...

DENVER, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Secure64 Software Corporation has expanded its award-winning suite of secure, high-performance Domain Name Server (DNS) solutions with Secure64 DNS Manager, the company's first server management software product designed to help communication service providers (CSPs) configure, manage and monitor their DNS servers in a centralized way. "Secure64 DNS Manager fills an important need for service providers that want to reduce the costs and...

STOCKHOLM, January 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish hosting provider Binero has DNSSEC-signed all customer .se-domains, increasing the total amount of signed .se-domains from 5000 to more than 100 000. Nearly one in ten Swedish domains are now validated against attacks with manipulated dns-information, like phishing. The .se-registry, .SE has long called for DNSSEC to be introduced. Binero offers the DNSSEC-validation free of charge and becomes the second largest provider in...

DENVER, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Secure64 Software Corporation has been named the winner of the 2011 Mission-Critical Innovations Award for Best New Application. Secure64 won the award for developing Secure64 DNS Cache, a DNS caching software appliance that provides the highest level of security, Denial of Service (DDoS) resistance and performance for communication and cloud service providers and ecommerce. The Mission-Critical Innovation Awards, presented by HP and Intel,...