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posted by mrpg on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:06AM   Printer-friendly
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ICANN Calls For DNSSEC Deployment For All Unsecured Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts

Following increasing reports of malicious activity targeting the DNS infrastructure, ICANN is calling for full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across all unsecured domain names. The organisation also reaffirms its commitment to engage in collaborative efforts to ensure the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet's global identifier systems.

As one of many entities engaged in the decentralised management of the Internet, ICANN is specifically responsible for coordinating the top-most level of the DNS to ensure its stable and secure operation and universal resolvability.

On 15 February 2019, in response to reports of attacks against key parts of the DNS infrastructure, ICANN offered a checklist of recommended security precautions for members of the domain name industry, registries, registrars, resellers, and related others, to proactively take to protect their systems, their customers' systems and information reachable via the DNS.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:01AM (#806740)

    Often it is broken processes inside the registrars. Sad, it favours the bad actors. Inside-job hacking is also quite common, leaving the legitimate domain owner unable to make any headway against the corporate to get their domain back. Not to mention names, but io n os.

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