Cisco Acquires OpenDNS for $635 Million

Cisco continues to spend on security, today announcing its intent to acquire San Francisco-based OpenDNS for $635 million. OpenDNS’ domain name system and cloud-based security services bring threat data collected from those platforms to Cisco’s security offerings. “To build on Cisco’s advanced...

New Analytics Tool Defines Language Used Malicious Domains

OpenDNS has gone public with a new tool that uses a blend of analytics principles found outside information security to create a threat model for detecting domains used in criminal and state-sponsored hacking campaigns. NLPRank is not ready for production, said OpenDNS director of security resear...