News Articles
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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