As of 5th May 2010 All 13 DNS ROOT Server will consist of a signed digital signature with every replied query. This has been ruled out to tackle any man-in-middle attack similar to Dan Kaminsky’s exploit. Is it going to break the internet? It is only going to affect if the firewalls & FWSM are [...]

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When a Name Server looks up a domain for the IP address, it stores the information into the cache so it doesn’t have to look it up every single time a request is made. For example, if someone looks for www.nishv.com the DNS server will look up the domain and stores the IP address 72.52.178.35 [...]

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OpenDNS

by Nish Vamadevan on 11/03/2008 · 2 comments

OpenDNS is a free DNS provider who does the Web-content filtering on their end. You don’t need to install any software to filter any content. All you need to do is register and follow the setup instructions, once that is done you will have access to your own area where you can filter phishing sites, [...]

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Antivirus This is one of the most important software one should have, even though I prefer to use GPL / Free software but when it comes to Antivirus, I fully support a paid version of Antivirus or a Security Suit which consists of Antivirus, Firewall etc compared to a Free version. If you are going [...]

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