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Home :: Internet 07 Feb 2012 Phish or Fair? Internet It shouldn't be a big surprise to hear that phishing is a big problem for banks. Criminals send email pretending to be a bank, and set up web sites that look a lot like a bank. One reason that phishing is possible is that e-mail has no built in security, so that if a mail message comes in purporting to be from, say, accounts@bankofamerica.com, there's no easy way to tell whether the message is really from bankofamerica.com, or from a crook. Mail authentication schemes like DKIM and the new dmarc.org group use cryptographic signatures to help authenticate mail and prove that it really is from who it purports to be from. So, if the mail can authenticate the sender, the phishing problem goes away, right? See more ... posted at: 02:36 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://www.jl.ly/Internet/porf.trackback 02 Feb 2012 World notices that Verisign said three months ago that they had a security breach two years ago Internet The trade press is abuzz today with reports about a security breach at Verisign. While a security breach at the company that runs .COM, .NET, and does the mechanical parts of managing the DNS root is interesting, this shouldn't be news, at least, not now. Since Verisign is a public company, they file a financial report called a 10-Q with the SEC every quarter. According to the SEC's web site, Verisign filed their 10-Q for June through September 2011 on October 28th. where it's been available to the public ever since. See more ... posted at: 20:45 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://www.jl.ly/Internet/vrsnbreach.trackback 08 Jan 2012 Reset, Refresh, Reinfect? Internet The upcoming Windows 8 will include new features to Reset or Refresh your computer. Reset wipes out your entire disk and restores it to they way it was when the computer was new, Refresh keeps some files and settings, but wipes and restores everything else. Given the propensity of Windows machines to become overrun with malware, rogue toolbars, cramware, and other unwanted annoyances, a way to get rid of it all quickly seems like a great idea. But ... See more ... posted at: 00:47 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://www.jl.ly/Internet/ms8.trackback 17 Sep 2011 The design of the Domain Name System (Part VIII) - Names Outside the DNS Internet In previous installments we've been looking at aspects of the design of the DNS. In today's grand finale we look at the the subtle but very knotty issue of names inside and outside the DNS. See more ... posted at: 23:59 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://www.jl.ly/Internet/dnsdesign8.trackback 06 Sep 2011 The design of the Domain Name System (Part VII) - Related names are not related Internet In previous installments we've been looking at aspects of the design of the DNS. Today we look at the relationship of similar names in the DNS. See more ... posted at: 00:44 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://www.jl.ly/Internet/dnsdesign7.trackback

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