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ICANN turns on IPv6 addresses
News The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after ICANN added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the internet protocol. IPv6 will be an essential part [of] our future, and support in the root...
[February 5, 2008, 13:26]
VeriSign: Internet infrastructure still vulnerable
News Authentication company VeriSign, which operates two of the root servers for the internet, has warned that the web is still vulnerable to attack, despite continued investment in hardening systems. As root servers all sat outside of India, they...
[November 7, 2008, 13:58]
Key Internet server moved amid security concerns
News The October attack took the form of a data flood, or a "denial of service attack," which sent a deluge of Internet control message protocol (ICMP) data packets to the root servers. The move comes just weeks after hackers bombarded the "root...
[November 11, 2002, 7:39]
Key Internet server moved for security
News That's precisely what administrators did during the recent attack to stop the flood of data from reaching the DNS root servers. The move comes just weeks after hackers bombarded the "root" servers with a flood of data designed to overwhelm them and...
[November 8, 2002, 7:42]
VeriSign spreads the DNS risk
News Over the next year, VeriSign aims to place additional replicas of one of its DNS root servers - kown as the 'J' - in up to 100 data centres around the world, said Aristotle Balogh, VeriSign's senior vice-president of operations and infrastructure.
[May 20, 2005, 16:05]
New flaws expose Net to attacks
News Given the Internet attacks leveled at the DNS root servers three weeks ago, new attacks could be around the corner, ISS warned. While the attacks on the root servers in October didn't exploit any particular flaw, the FBI and System Audit Network...
[November 14, 2002, 8:04]
New shield repelled internet backbone attack
News ICANN regulates internet domain name and address registration and operates one of the main so-called root DNS servers. During the attack, which lasted almost eight hours, six of the 13 root servers that form the foundation of the internet's DNS...
[March 12, 2007, 8:24]
Internet backbone suffers suspected attack
News It is an unusual large amount of traffic that is hitting DNS servers," said John Crain, chief technical officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which operates one of the main so-called root DNS servers.
[February 7, 2007, 13:31]
European Net registrars boycott ICANN
News Black said CENTR is primarily concerned about the stability of the database that lies behind the Net's 13 root servers. Without root servers, Net surfers would be unable to reach Web sites. Separate companies and their employees operate root...
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
China creates own Internet domains
News Experts are concerned that this move will see China administrating its top-level domains with its own separate root servers, which could cause a split in the Internet. If someone launched a .name in a different root, you as an end user could not be...
[March 1, 2006, 13:35]
EMC offers tool for managing virtual systems
News SSM allows systems managers to identify root-cause issues across physical and virtual domains by extending EMC 's Smarts Root Cause Analysis and Codebook Correlation technology to virtual servers using behavioural models.
[March 11, 2009, 16:17]
Networks crippled by worms' onslaught
News Every time the mini-mail server sends off a copy of the virus, it looks up data from the DNS root servers, the authoritative address books of the Internet. The ISP said it saw a dramatic increase in the number of mail-record lookups processed by...
[August 22, 2003, 8:45]
VeriSign's CEO hits back at critics
News With security attacks becoming increasingly common, Sclavos also says it's time to transfer the responsibility for operating the root servers from volunteers to the commercial sector. You're saying to go commercial with root servers.
[October 17, 2003, 12:35]
Build a scalable DNS infrastructure
News DNS root servers have responsibility for the .root level) domain. Root level. Although technically all Internet domain names end with a dot to represent the root level of the namespace, DNS software in use today does not require you to enter the...
[May 9, 2006, 13:05]
Debian attacker may have used new exploit
News I believe that there was an as-yet-unknown local root exploit used to go from having local unprivileged access to having root," Troup wrote in an email to a Debian mailing list on Friday. There is [I believe] an unknown local root exploit in the wild.
[November 28, 2003, 14:05]
Installing and using phpMyAdmin to manage MySQL databases
News To get up and running quickly, and to be able to edit all the databases on the server, you'll need to provide root credentials: cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql'; cfg['Servers'][$i...
[December 23, 2005, 12:10]
Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure review
Reviews We were a little concerned that we needed to supply only the root password for our VMware servers. Unfortunately our first replication job failed as soon as it started because our VMware servers were configured to prohibit the root user from...
[August 28, 2007, 15:33]
Global Web: An Internet governance run-down
News It would be a Balkanised Internet in which the US attempts to retain control of its root servers and a large portion of the world veers in an incompatible direction. What's crucial here is the operation of the Internet's 13 root servers, which...
[November 17, 2005, 15:50]
Windows VPN software allows attacks
News In some cases, when a program is invoked, the operating system looks first in the system root directory (typically C:\), which is by default open to all users. There is no patch for this bug, but Microsoft recommends that system administrators...
[October 31, 2002, 14:18]
Linux serves up triple threat
News In the grand scheme of things, if an attacker is able to get access to your box, then they could probably get root [control] on your box, anyway," he said. The root user is the standard Linux and Unix name for the person who has complete control of...
[February 20, 2004, 8:05]
