Dave Piscitello, on behalf of the ICANN Security Team DDoS attacks are serious problems. While ICANN’s role in mitigating these threats is limited, the Security Team offers these insights to raise awareness on how to report DDoS attacks Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives [...]

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ICANN has a long tradition of working with the Internet community to support technical training, going back 10 years to the ICANN meeting in Carthage, Tunisia in October 2003. Over the years, these trainings have assisted with improving skills, creating awareness of DNS threats and mitigations, and enabled DNSSEC in a number of ccTLDs. Last [...]

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Dave Piscitello, on behalf of the ICANN Security Team In recent weeks, numerous high profile organizations and financial institutions have been targets of massive service disruption attacks. Several of these attacks are characteristically similar to attacks against top level domain name servers in 2006. ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee published an Advisory, SAC008 [PDF, [...]

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I was pleased to have the opportunity last week to meet with a group of ccTLDs in London, as part of a series of CEO Roundtables centered on strategic issues faced by the Domain Name System (DNS) sector. This roundtable served as a forum for the ccTLDs, from a diverse set of countries, to provide [...]

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Last week, the Arab Internet community came together to discuss Internet governance issues and priorities related to the region. The Arab Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance meeting took place in Dubai as part of the Arab IGF open consultations. The meeting, hosted by the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the United Arab Emirates brought together over 100 [...]

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On Monday, I was very pleased to host more than a dozen leaders from the registry community; participants in our latest CEO Roundtable series focused on key issues and trends within the Domain Name System sector. Over the course of a day, we discussed the evolution of the DNS sector from a number of perspectives [...]

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21 December 2012 To the ICANN Community, I believe The Domain Name System — and the Industry that has grown up around it — are at an inflection point.  With the impending introduction of new gTLDs and the vertical integration of the DNS value chain, we, as leaders within the DNS ecosystem, must be ready [...]

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We are passing on this announcement from our colleagues at the University of Maryland, regarding a change to the IPv4 address to one of the DNS root servers. This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to the IPv4 address for one of the authorities listed for the DNS root zone and the [...]

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Dave Piscitello, Sr. Security Technologist, for the ICANN Security Team Diigo is a social annotation and bookmarking service that millions of individuals, educators, and students use daily to manage and share information, conduct research and collaborate. On October 24th, an attacker gained control of Diigo’s domain registrar account. Domain was hijacked away from Diigo’s control, [...]

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