August 29, 2008
Kaminsky flaw prompts DNS server overhaul
One of the companies most at risk from the notorious DNS cache poisoning vulnerability has overhauled security in the latest release of its DNS server software in what looks like a major code rethink.
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August 29, 2008
Nominum clobbers DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
Internet software company, Nominum, has released a new version of its DNS server software that is claimed to offer much greater protection from the notorious DNS cache poisoning vulnerability unveiled earlier this year by security researcher Dan Kaminsky.
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August 29, 2008
Nominum Reveals New Security Package
Offering an intelligent, layered approach with built-in defense in depth against DNS cache poisoning, Nominum (News - Alert) has unveiled a comprehensive new security release for its Vantio caching DNS server platform.
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August 27, 2008
Nominum Solves Kaminsky Attack
But the DNS specialist warns ISPs to remain vigilant, as threats are certain to evolve.
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August 27, 2008
Nominum Caches In
One man's poison leads to another man's product, as Nominum Inc. is proving today with its latest security release.
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August 27, 2008
Nominum Defends Against DNS Cache Poisoning
Nominum has released a security update to its Vantio caching DNS server platform, adding multi-layer intelligent defenses that defeat DNS cache poisoning and other attacks, including the recently publicized Kaminsky vulnerability. Vantio, which is an alternative to open-source DNS, enables broadband providers to deliver new services by leveraging DNS as a key control point in the network . Nominum's many ISP and carrier customers support an estimated 120 million broadband subscribers.
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August 18, 2008
The DNS Vulnerability and the ISP
We called three experts at major internet security and DNS companies. We asked them what ISPs should know about the problem, and what they should do.
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August 12, 2008
Patched DNS still vulnerable to cache poisoning
!After security expert Dan Kaminsky discovered how to exploit a known flaw in the global domain name system, the Internet community moved swiftly to develop and distribute fixes, but now a Russian programmer Evgeniy Polyakov claims to have found a way to beat the fix.
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August 8, 2008
Leaks in Patch for Web Security Hole
Faced with the discovery of a serious flaw in the Internets workings, computer network administrators around the world have been rushing to fix their systems with a cobbled-together patch. Now it appears that the patch has some gaping holes.
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August 6, 2008
Nominum DNS Protects 120 Million From New Risk
Nominum have announced that their latest Nominum DNS software, which was used in part of a mass upgrade for carrier and Internet Service Provider customers, protected over 120 million customers worldwide from a new DNS vulnerability.
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July 9, 2008
New Internet Poison Gets Instant Antidote
Vendors are patching up a domain name server (DNS) vulnerability disclosed to the public yesterday, blocking a flaw that could be exploited to hijack certain Internet domains.
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July 8, 2008
Security Vulnerability Update
DNS is essential to the proper functioning of the Internet and securing DNS is critical to ensuring the integrity of ecommerce and the billions of other business and social interactions that occur on public and private networks every day.
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February 11, 2008
DNS Inventor Warns of Next Big Threat
The industry is just one multi-million-dollar corporate data breach away from waking up to the serious and often-silent threat of corrupted DNS resolution servers, says DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris.
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February 7, 2008
The great phone book in the sky
Sometimes, a system works so well that we barely notice it. Twenty-five years ago this year, the Domain Name System was developed by Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel. Most internet users will not know what this is, but anyone browsing the web or receiving email is relying on the good functioning of DNS. So, it's worth understanding a little bit about it.
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January 31, 2008
DNS Celebrates 25th Birthday
Paul Mockapetris, chairman and chief scientist at Nominum, is credited with inventing the DNS in 1983. Mockapetris shared his thoughts on the technology during a ceremony at the Oxford Internet Institute, discussing how it came to be, its impact on the internet and where it is headed.
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