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PC World October 23, 2002 Paul Roberts	Net Attack Could Be First of Many, Experts Warn Future attacks could succeed in bringing down the Internet and are surprisingly simple to launch, security insiders say.
InternetNews February 7, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Internet 'Didn't Crumble' Under DNS Attacks Internet users barely felt a ripple yesterday when hackers launched a concerted attack on several key Domain Name System servers.
InternetNews June 16, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Akamai Outage Raises DNS Questions DNS expert says Akamai's outage that hit some big sites briefly is not a global DNS prolem, but raises questions.
InternetNews February 12, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	VeriSign Strengthens DNS For IPv6 DNS gets scaled for the challenge ahead, as the Internet infrastructure giant works to similarly ready its other systems.
InternetNews February 8, 2007 Ed Sutherland	VeriSign Plans $100M DNS Upgrade VeriSign to expand Internet infrastructure to handle 'radical change' in online attacks and usage.
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.
InternetNews July 19, 2010	The Internet's DNS Gets Key Security Feature With the addition of DNSSEC, the Net's core infrastructure gains an important new security feature.
InternetNews May 9, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Back After Going Black Internet search giant Google's engine sputtered briefly over the weekend when its Web site blacked-out, leaving millions of visitors looking for answers elsewhere.
InternetNews April 27, 2011	Russia Leads in Internet Attack Traffic New report from Akamai names Russia as the source of 10 percent of global attack traffic, but is it all really coming from Russia?
InternetNews April 5, 2007 David Needle	Domain Name Fee Increase Set VeriSign announces increases to .com and .net domains to help pay infrastructure costs.
InternetNews February 10, 2010	DNS Servers Provide Service, Security Benefits OpenDNS and Google Public DNS do a great job of blocking known exploit domains to help keep company networks safe from increasingly sophisticated and resourceful hackers.
InternetNews June 9, 2011 Sean Michael Kerner	Did IPv6 Use Go Up on IPv6 Day? One metric shows a 50 percent gain for IPv6 thanks to global event designed to improve awareness.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	GitHub Is Still Under The Biggest DDoS Attack In Its History In the biggest DDoS attack in its history, GitHub is facing an onslaught of malicious inbound traffic from what appear to be China-based sources.
InternetNews March 4, 2011 Sean Michael Kerner	Behind the Uptick in Internet Domain Names Verisign reports the number of Internet Domains grew to over 205.3 million in 2010, but some segments didn't grow much at all. Why?
InternetNews May 10, 2011	DDoS Attacks Hit the Bottom Line According to VeriSign, DDoS attacks have gone mainstream with 63 percent of survey respondents getting hit at least once and 11 percent getting attacked more than six times.
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Coalition to Secure DNS Takes Shape New group aims to get over the hurdles to a secure DNS. Will it succeed?
PC World August 1, 2001 James Niccolai	Code Red Awakens With a Whimper Hyped worm appears to have little impact, but experts warn we aren't out of the woods yet...
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Mark D. McLaughlin	Guest Commentary: The Reliable Internet? The Internet needs to be reliable, says the senior vice president and general manager of VeriSign Internet Services. Is it?
InternetNews September 9, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	VeriSign Accelerates DNS From twice a day updates to just minutes for updating name servers.
InternetNews January 19, 2011	New Type of Denial of Service Attack Emerging Researchers detail a new kind of more sophisticated DoS attack at this week's Black Hat security conference.
InternetNews January 24, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Florida ISP Said to Host Terrorist Software A security researcher is disturbed to discover an ISP in his hometown appears to be hosting an encryption tool used by terrorists.
InternetNews March 27, 2006 David Miller	ICANN Tackles Future of Internet The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' 25th International meeting officially opened on Monday in Wellington, New Zealand.
PC Magazine October 21, 2003 Sebastian Rupley	VeriSign: Unfair Play? VeriSign, which some say has a monopoly position as caretaker of Web domains, was hit with a lawsuit in September.
InternetNews July 14, 2009	Inside Korea's Cyber Attack What really happened in South Korea? Attackers used the country's high-speed network against itself.
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato	Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost.
PC World January 24, 2001 Cameron Crouch	Are Hackers Hounding Microsoft? Software giant's sites fall in domain name snafu, but cause of crash remains undetermined...
InternetNews January 13, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	VeriSign To Run New RFID Root Directory Domain name service player will be the keeper of the next database for RFID tags.
InternetNews March 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Patch Tuesday Shores Up DNS DNS flaws are rated by Microsoft as likely to be exploited.
InternetNews May 18, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Judge Dismisses Suit Against ICANN VeriSign loses a skirmish in its antitrust claim against the Internet's governing body.
Linux Journal May 2001 Neil Anuskiewicz	An Introduction to DNS and DNS Tools The explosive growth of the Internet was made possible, in part, by DNS...
InternetNews August 6, 2009	Twitter, Facebook Hit in Denial-of-Service Attacks Social media phenoms Twitter and Facebook this morning suffered bouts of downtime - with each blaming a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for its woes.
Salon.com January 26, 2001 Scott Rosenberg	Down and out in Redmond When Microsoft fell off the grid, its first reaction was to cover its butt...
InternetNews March 18, 2010	VeriSign Planning $300 Million DNS Upgrade As it looks ahead to an exponential increase in Internet traffic, VeriSign is planning to pump $300 million into upgrading the .com DNS infrastructure through Project Apollo.
InternetNews August 11, 2010	VeriSign Debuts Cloud-Based DNS Service As it pads out its core domain-name business VeriSign is pitching a cloud-based Domain Name System management service to help ease the load on enterprise IT.
InternetNews January 27, 2011	British Cops Snag 5 Pro-Wikileaks Hackers Scotland Yard authorities announce arrest of five members of "Anonymous" hacking ring charged with marshaling DDoS attacks against firms that cut off payments service to Wikileaks.
InternetNews February 25, 2010	Intel Confirms Details of Cyber Attack In regulatory filing, Intel outlines "sometimes successful" attacks that infiltrated the company's systems around the same time as the massive attack on Google and other companies.
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb	When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
InternetNews January 22, 2010	Has DNSSEC Been Compromised Again? Yet another flaw is found in technology aimed at fixing DNS's own flaws. Should we be worried?
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Those Expanding Internet Domain Names 33 million new domains were registered in 2007. Did you get one?
Bank Technology News July 2008 Rebecca Sausner	Could the U.S. Be the Next Estonia? Gadi Evron, former Israeli Government Internet Security Operations Manager, went to Estonia during the crippling DDOS attacks last May. Here he talks about whether the U.S. is vulnerable to such an attack, and the role banks and home computers play in protecting critical infrastructure.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007 Larry Tabb	Preparing for the Inevitable While electronic thefts can be cleaner, less physical and certainly less bloody, the chance of getting money out of a brokerage or bank illegally is usually greater with a gun than a computer. But as the criminals and terrorists get smarter, we too must raise the bar.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark	Oregon Man Cops Plea in eBay DDOS Attack A 21-year-old Oregon man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty this week for his role in launching a distributed denial of service attack on eBay in 2003.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2009 Rich Smith	Welcome! You've Got Hackers! Someone threw a cyber war this week. It's great to know that the government is spending billions hardening the IT system against more competent attackers, but what we really need here is a solution to the real problem: Identifying who the attackers are.
InternetNews June 8, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	A Name For All Domains Updated VeriSign reports more domain name registrations and more active names than during the tech bubble.
InternetNews December 3, 2010	WikiLeaks Struggles to Stay Online Whistleblower site goes server hopping after U.S. hosting and DNS providers drop it for violating usage agreements in the wake of massive diplomatic cable leak.
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 David Schneider	Fresh Phish How a recently discovered flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System makes it easy for scammers to lure you to fake Web sites
InternetNews May 8, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Economy Is Down but Domain Business Is Up VeriSign reports that its revenues rose on the strength of increasing domain and SSL registrations.
InternetNews March 1, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	VeriSign Holds .com Control in ICANN Deal VeriSign is poised to maintain control of the .com registry until at least 2012, maybe even longer.
PC Magazine August 7, 2009 Lance Ulanoff	Twitter's Down and It's All Your Fault The micro-blogging service's difficulties are troubling. Why it's suffering through a DDoS attack is even more upsetting.