India to adopt new DNS Security Extensions

[Ceres]

India has taken a lead in fixing the latest security hole that is threatening massive hacking and phishing attacks. It is among the first five countries worldwide and the first in Asia to have decided on adopting the new security extensions being pushed by the organisation overseeing website allocations globally, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).

You can read the rest of the article at:
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Plugging-the-giant-security-hole-in-the-world-wide-web/351244/

 

[Jeff]

Very interesting. Well spotted!

 

[Nomad]

Yeah, good news and also did you see that .in has over 4.50,000 registrations which in fact is quite a quantity for a country level TLD. Great going for .in and for the .in domaineers

 

[Ceres]

As mentioned previously, India is adopting new DNS Security Extensions. The New Straits Times highlights some examples of "DNS poisoning" and how cyber criminals can steal valuable information from you:

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/Frontpage/2366175/Article/index_html

 

[netstar]

You can read the rest of the article at:
Plugging the giant security hole in the world wide web - The Financial Express

Thanks for sharing the article, great news!

 

[Dioxy]

Very interesting. I'm glad to hear that they will be adopting a new DNS security extension. This is great news Thanks for sharing!

 

[eminem_slimshady]

This sounds great. Extra security is always a good thing on the internet. Considering the amount of computer hackers that reside n our world. The internet never is really 100% safe.