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ISC adds DDoS defense module to BIND software 25 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Distributed Denial of Service attacks are increasing in both frequency and severity. In Q2 of 2013 alone, the number of attacks rose by 20%, with an average of 50 million packets per second sent at th...
ISC Spins Off Its Security Business unit 2 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announces that it has sold its security-related assets to Farsight Security, Inc., (“Farsight”) a new company started by ISC founder, Paul Vixie. The DNSDB and SIE se...
ISC Board Members inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame 28 Jun 2013 | 10:43 am
ISC congratulates Board members Stephen Wolff and David Farber on their induction into the Internet Hall of Fame. Thank you for all you’ve done for ISC and the Internet! Internet Hall of Fame
Hijacking DNS? Error? DDoS? What happened, and what you can do 21 Jun 2013 | 07:51 am
Last night, TechCrunch reported that LinkedIn and Fidelity.com faced an outage due to a DNS error. ISC staff and colleagues observed that the error was caused due to the changing of nameserver informa...
Thoughts on a Recent BIND Interop Issue 20 Jun 2013 | 11:28 pm
Unexpected DNSSEC validation failures ISC was recently involved in the troubleshooting and diagnosis of a DNSSEC-validation interoperability issue between BIND 9 and PowerDNS, where BIND is acting as ...
ISC creates commercial subsidiary: DNSco 9 Apr 2013 | 03:41 pm
Beijing, China – 9 April 2013. Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announces the creation of its first commercial subsidiary, DNSco. DNSco combines a business view and full-service solution with ISC’s ...
ISC creates commercial subsidiary: DNSco 9 Apr 2013 | 03:41 pm
Beijing, China – 9 April 2013. Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announces the creation of its first commercial subsidiary, DNSco. DNSco combines a business view and full-service solution with ISC’s ...
Is Your Open DNS Resolver Part of a Criminal Conspiracy? 29 Mar 2013 | 06:18 am
It has been a very eventful week in the field of DNS operations. In addition to the BIND vulnerability disclosed by ISC this week, the DNS world has been buzzing with news about “the biggest Distribut...
Is Your Open DNS Resolver Part of a Criminal Conspiracy? 29 Mar 2013 | 06:18 am
It has been a very eventful week in the field of DNS operations. In addition to the BIND vulnerability disclosed by ISC this week, the DNS world has been buzzing with news about “the biggest Distribut...
Security Advisory CVE-2013-2266: A Maliciously Crafted Regular Expression Can Cause Memory Exhaustion in named 26 Mar 2013 | 09:03 pm
A flaw in a library used by BIND 9.7, 9.8, and 9.9, when compiled on Unix and related operating systems, allows an attacker to deliberately cause excessive memory consumption by the named process, pot...
