ICANN has postponed the deadline for updating name servers with the new root zone key signing key to early 2018 because too many ISPs and network operators are not ready, and that would cause DNSSEC ...

In a move that seems inspired by "The Lord of the Rings," seven "keys" have been handed out to a trusted circle of people who might get called upon to "save" the Internet in the aftermath of a cyber ...

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WASHINGTON -- BLACK HAT DC -- The much-debated protocol to help secure the Domain Name System received a big boost today when DNS security guru Dan Kaminsky said the industry must adopt the DNSSEC ...

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The hazards of early DNSSEC adoption: A misconfiguration in NASA’s Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) implementation on its website caused Comcast’s network to block users from the site ...

Rotating cryptographic keys is a security best practice, so it’s good news that ICANN has begun the process to change the root key pair underpinning the security of the DNS. While the chances of a ...

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The DNS is fragile they say. Not only is it another one of those old Internet protocols that was never designed to handle either the load or the level of attack to which it is subjected today, but the ...