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Internet Blocked Briefly in Syria
Sometime around 2:45 PM EDT yesterday, Syria’s BGP routes were severed and the country disappeared from the Internet. Just as quickly as it had fallen, Syria came back online this morning. In March, the Middle Eastern nation entered the third year of a violent conflict in which the country’s ruli...
Predictive Security Analytics Tool Available Free to Researchers
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Dan Hubbard has lately been a regular face at a lot of big data meet-ups. He’s also often been the lone security face at these meet-ups, which are dominated by analytics, search, social media and advertising professionals. That may change soon for the CTO of DNS and securi...
New DNSCrypt Tool Encrypts DNS Traffic
DNS provider OpenDNS has developed a new open-source tool that will encrypt all of the traffic between customers and the OpenDNS servers. The tool is designed to address the slew of techniques that enable attackers to eavesdrop on plain-text DNS traffic. The tool, called DNSCrypt, is in an early...
OpenDNS 2010 Report : Web Content Filtering and Phishing !
OpenDNS 2010 Report : Web Content Filtering and Phishing Introduction OpenDNS® is the largest global DNS service for consumers, schools and businesses: • Resolves 30 billion DNS queries per day • Services 15 million requesting IP addresses per day. Many of these represent organizations with...
OpenDNS : Facebook Was The Most Blocked Site In 2010 !
According to a new report PDF of the DNS provider OpenDNS and online safety, social networking site Facebook was the most secure site in 2010. In this context, means blocking OpenDNS customers specially configured DNS and security services to prevent their users to connect, probably beyond the...
