Three large scale DNS attacks launched against Brazilian internet users

Cable modem customers had their DNS traffic modified andwere redirected to malicious sites all over Brazil. In the last few months, a series of DNS attacks involving cache poisoning emerged there. In these instances, cable ISP customers had hackers update their cable modem settings to change the DNS servers to malicious servers used to redirect [...]

Turkish hackers strike websites with DNS hack  

Xelerance has released openswan 2.6.34 This is a bugfix release mostly focussed on KLIPS and IPv6. Happy IPv6 day! http://www.openswan.org/download/openswan-2.6.34.tar.gz http://www.openswan.org/download/openswan-2.6.34.tar.gz.asc The full change set for this release follows below. v2.6.34 (June 8, 2011) * Fix build without USE_EXTRACRYPTO introduced in 2.6.33 [Tuomo] * Fix new leftmtu= option to pass correctly to _updown [Mattias Walstrom] [...]

 VeriSign, which operates two of the Internet’s 13 root domain name service (DNS) servers, has called its deployment of DNSSEC in the .com TLD a “critical milestone to improve the integrity” of the Internet, the Inquirer reports. According to the article, a key advantage with DNSSEC is DNS records can be verified because they [...]

April 02, 2011: Xelerance Corporation is pleased to announce it will be a Platinum sponsor and a presenter at the first IPv6 Summit, to be held in Ottawa, Canada. The Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group is organizing the Summit, which will be hosted by the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management. The objective of [...]

London, UK, November 29: CentralNic Ltd, the global domain name registry, today announced that it has completed the largest deployment of DNSSEC of any registry to date. CentralNic, which operates the registry system for 22 domain extensions, including .us.com, .uk.com and .la, has finished rollout of the new security technology across all its extensions. “No [...]

“As the Internet Service Provider for 4,000 students and teachers using 2,500 personal computers, we are counted on to provide high-speed Internet and data services. In turn, we need service and support we can count on – something Xelerance delivers every day. “We have been operating Xelerance’s Resolver and DNSX Secure Signer solutions for six [...]

In a press release released last October, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) noted that IPv6 adoption was at a critical phase. “[The] latest allocation means that the IPv4 free pool dipped below 10% in January…”, states Axel Pawlik, Chairman. From the press release: “According to current depletion rates, the last five IPv4 address blocks will [...]

July 19th, 2010: Xelerance Corporation has reached an agreement with domain registry powerhouse CentralNic Ltd. to provide the European and the UK markets with DNSX Secure Signer – the most comprehensive automated signing solution for Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the market. The agreement means CentralNic’s European and UK clients now have local [...]

April 7, 2010, Xelerance Corporation, a small Canadian company that thinks big, has won the Security Hardware Award at the prestigious Federal Office Systems Exposition (FOSE) in Washington, D.C. Xelerance took the top prize in Security Hardware for its DNSX Secure Signer, a state-of-the-art appliance for automating the implementation and management of Domain Name System [...]