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• 40% of U.S. government Web sites fail security test

  Approximately 40% of federal government agencies are out of compliance with a regulation that requires them to deploy an extra layer of authentication on their Web sites to prevent hackers from hijacking Web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites.

• Motorola's NVG510 DSL modem... not very good

  A few weeks ago here in the above ground portions of the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker we got hooked on the British series "Downton Abbey".

• Security: Will 2012 be the dawn of DNSSEC?

  Will 2012 be the year when US retailers, banks and content providers finally bolster their DNS systems with an add-on security measure that prevents Web site spoofing? That's what advocates of the security measure - dubbed DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions - are hoping will occur.

• New era for website names begins

  A new era of Web site naming begins, when Internet policymakers start accepting applications for hundreds - perhaps thousands - of new domain name extensions such as .hotel and .paris.

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  Network trust and security in doubt

  The decommissioning of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) across Australia over the next few years could accelerate the deterioration of one of communication technology’s most valuable assets: Trust.

• LulzSec tweets as News’ DNS servers go down

  Just hours after claiming responsibility for hacking News International’s The Sun website and posting a fake story about Rupert Murdoch’s death, hacker group Lulz Security has tweeted that News International’s DNS servers are down denying access to some 1024 web addresses.

• Local .au DNSSEC scoping complete: auDA

  Australia has moved a step closer to secure DNS services with the Australian .au Domain Administration (auDA) completing the assessment phase of the planned transition, but a final go-live data is yet to be decided.

• P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN

  A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday.

• UNSW reassures reliability to users after outages

  The University of New South Wales has sought to reassure students of its reliability, after its domain name registration expired, resulting in outages in all external-facing UNSW websites and email bounce backs.

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  Updated: Domain expiry downs UNSW sites, e-mail

  A DNS issue has downed all external-facing websites and e-mail at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

• Dot-org domains can now be protected by DNSSEC

  On Wednesday, .org became the first generic top-level domain to offer its customers improved security using DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions).

• Six annoying router problems - and solutions

  These days, having access to wireless broadband is an absolute necessity for home offices and small businesses.

• VeriSign: DNSSEC is on track

  VeriSign is reporting no serious problems with its ongoing deployment of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the Internet's root servers and on the top-level domain servers that it operates, including the systems that power the popular .com and .net domains.

• Google, Microsoft, Netflix in talks to create shared list of IPv6 users

  Leading Web content providers -- including Google, Yahoo, Netflix and Microsoft -- are conducting early-stage conversations about creating a shared list of customers who can access their Web sites via IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Yahoo proposes 'really ugly hack' to DNS

  Network engineers from Yahoo are pitching what they admit is a "really ugly hack" to the Internet's Domain Name System, but they say it is necessary for the popular Web content provider to support IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.