Carolyn Duffy Marsan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Article | 13/07/2009 Invisible IPv6 traffic poses serious network threat

IPv6 -- the next-generation Internet protocol -- isn't keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should.

Article | 10/07/2009 What's driving this university to IPv6? Going green

Ave Maria University, a liberal arts college near Naples, Fla., is looking to adopt IPv6 across its two data centers and all of its facilities managem...

Article | 8/07/2009 Largest US IPv6 network welcomes rivals

Little-known Hurricane Electric, the nation's leading provider of IPv6 services, is bracing for new and bigger competitors entering the fray.

Article | 6/07/2009 The 10 dumbest mistakes network managers make

When you look at the worst corporate security breaches, it's clear that network managers keep making the same mistakes over and over again, and that m...

Article | 25/06/2009 ICANN: New domains coming in 2010

Internet policymakers are forging ahead with a controversial plan to introduce hundreds of generic top-level domains -- such as .nyc, .sport and .food...

Article | 23/06/2009 Comcast lengthens IPv6 lead

Comcast continues to outpace rival U.S. cable companies in the development of next-generation Internet connectivity and content.

Article | 17/06/2009 NeuStar offers temporary fix for Kaminsky bug

NeuStar has developed a proprietary system for thwarting Web traffic hijacking attacks that the company plans to market until standard DNS Security (D...

Article | 9/06/2009 10 things you didn't know about cyberwarfare

NEW YORK CITY -- Imagine a situation where a powerful country wants to annex its small neighbor, so it launches a week-long campaign of cyberattacks a...

Article | 9/06/2009 Internet Cleanroom: New weapon against drive-by download attacks emerges

NEW YORK CITY -- As more employees visit social networking sites while at work, network managers are seeing a rise in accidental malware infections kn...

Article | 9/06/2009 Hidden threat on corporate nets: misconfigured gear

An invisible security weakness is lurking in most corporate networks in the form of millions of lines of code that represent the configuration scripts...

Article | 2/06/2009 Tiny .biz domain names to be auctioned off to highest bidders

How much is x.biz or .ge.biz worth?

Article | 20/05/2009 New DNS bug and fix announced

Domain name registries are scrambling to patch a newly discovered bug in popular open source DNS software that could be exploited for denial-of-servic...

Article | 15/05/2009 Web-hosting firms defy recession

After the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, mothballed data centers operated by bankrupt companies such as Exodus and PSINet were the most visible signs o...

Article | 10/04/2009 10 Twitter tips for the workplace

Having trouble convincing your boss that Twitter isn't a waste of time? Then you might find it interesting to learn that social media evangelists acro...

Article | 2/04/2009 UltraDNS service knocked offline by attack

NeuStar confirmed that its UltraDNS managed DNS service was knocked offline for several hours Tuesday morning by a distributed denial of service attac...