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NEWS ABOUT: DNS

DNS stories: 3 news summaries

Domain Name Bug Worries Web Providers

Firms race to fix flaw in Internet's architecture before crooks find it

Jul 30, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - ISPs worldwide are racing to patch a flaw in the design of the Internet that could allow criminals to steal personal and financial details of Web users by diverting them to fake sites. The flaw resides in the procedures of the Domain Name System, which translates URLs into numerical Internet... More »

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Internet • Microsoft • domain names • Internet security • ISP • DNS • World Wide Web

Latest Domain Name Hack Disguises
Its Danger

Can secretly steer Windows users wrong

Dec 11, 07 8:48 PM CST
(Newser) - The misdirection of “open-recursive” DNS servers, which facilitate web-surfing by translating verbal domain names into numerical IP addresses, is the new, more covert face of cyber-criminality, and could explode into a new wave of phishing attacks, IDG News reports. Hackers can use these types of DNS servers to redirect... More »

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domain names • phishing • Internet domains • cybercrime • DNS

ICANN Appoints New Zealander to Replace Cerf

Will be first non- American to head the Internet regulatory body

Nov 3, 07 3:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - ICANN, the independent organization managing the Internet, filled its leadership void today by appointing New Zealand’s Peter Dengate Thrush as chairman. He will be the first non-American to head the group, which took over regulation from the US government, and has often come under international fire. Dengate Thrush downplayed... More »

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ICANN • Vint Cerf • DNS

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