Neustar protects web sites from “poisoning” hijack
Web security company Neustar is launching a product that protects web sites from so-called DNS Cache Poisoning, something hackers have used to hijack web sites.
A year ago, security researcher Dan Kaminsky stunned the world with his disclosure of a fundamental flaw in the security of the Internet. He discovered it was possible to poison the Internet’s address book so that hackers could misdirect traffic from one web site to another. The patch he and others put in… Continue Reading
Truce: Google and Microsoft join forces for an open white space spectrum
Google and Microsoft are perhaps the Internet’s two most fierce rivals. But that doesn’t mean they can’t work together from time to time. That’s what they’re doing to make it possible for consumers to take advantage of the TV white space spectrum, according to the Google Public Policy Blog.
The white space spectrum, sometimes simply known as the “white space,” refers to unused radio frequencies in between the ones that broadcast television signals. These high-bandwidth spaces… Continue Reading