What is DNSSEC?
DNSSEC (short for DNS Security Extensions) adds security to the Domain Name System. DNSSEC was designed to protect the Internet from certain attacks, such as DNS cache poisoning (discovered by Dan Kaminsky). It is a set of extensions to DNS, which [...]

A secret document called the “Open Cloud Manifesto” has been leaked onto the Internet as of recently. The net community at-large had become aware of this document when someone (or some group) asked some people at Microsoft to sign it. Microsoft wasn’t very happy about this since they are trying to lauch their newly released [...]

The internet is filled with threats real and imagined, from malicious hackers to government censors.
Beyond the hacks and cracks — and in celebration of Sunshine Week — we’ve compiled a brief list of some of the biggest public and private threats facing the internet.
1. Warrantless Government Monitoring
2. Private Censorship
3. Government Censorship
4. Deep Packet Inspection
5. [...]

As the rest of the first world solidifies their broadband net infrastructure (despite the issues some regions are facing with their exostructure), ISPs in the U.S. continue to offer only modest “high-speed” internet access packages. It’s true: the average consumer would find the upgrade from dial-up to 1.5Mb download speeds astonishing . . . [...]

 Years after the Internet Corportation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began their push for IPv6 adoption they finally took the first steps to allowing that to actually happen yesterday. The root DNS zone was updated with IPv6 addresses for six of the thirteen servers. This change effectively allows other systems on the Internet to [...]