| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.09.2024 | Navigating the Digital Frontier: Setting Up Your Own VPN and Traffic Management System | In today’s interconnected world, the need for secure and efficient data management is paramount. As more people work from home and rely on digital services, the demand for robust networking solutions has surged. This article explores two cr... |
| 29.08.2024 | Как сделать и настроить собственный VPN | В статье рассмотрим четыре способа создания собственного VPN. Начнем с самого простого варианта, что под силу даже начинающим пользователям ПК.Подготовка
Для всех четырех способов нам понадобиться виртуальный сервер (VPS). Будет достаточно ... |
| 30.12.2023 | DNS Block: Canal+ Sues Cloudflare, Google & Cisco to Fight Piracy | The music industry obtained a pioneering injunction to compel Danish ISPs to implement site-blocking measures back in 2006.
The goal was to limit access to unlicensed Russian music download platform AllofMP3, but the action also represented... |
| 13.03.2023 | Как мы свой VPN поднимали | Всем привет, на связи команда Joy Dev.
Я и мой коллега Артём — backend‑разработчики, пишем на Ruby. Когда мы только начали работать, в компании использовались две сторонние службы VPN (не буду их называть), которые со временем перестали по ... |
| 18.01.2023 | Africa: How to Spot a Cyberbot - Five Tips to Keep Your Device Safe | You may know nothing about it, but your phone - or your laptop or tablet - could be taken over by someone else who has found their way in through a back door. They could have infected your device with malware to make it a "bot" or... |
| 25.12.2018 | Cybersecurity 101: How to browse the web securely and privately | So you want to browse the web securely and privately? Here’s a hard truth: it’s almost impossible.
It’s not just your internet provider that knows which sites you visit, it’s also the government — and other governments! And when it’s not th... |
| 17.03.2018 | Vodafone Appeals Decision Forcing it to Block Pirate Streaming Site Kinox | Streaming site Kinox has proven hugely problematic for German authorities and international rightsholders for many years.
Last year, following a three-year manhunt, one of the site’s alleged operators was detained in Kosovo. Despite this an... |
| 31.08.2017 | How to speed up your DNS settings | When you type a URL into your browser’s address bar and hit enter, there will be a slight delay while the software asks a DNS (Domain Name System) server for the IP address of the site in order to be able to load it.
Switching to a faster D... |
| 24.05.2017 | Circle with Disney raises $10 million for its parental control device for families | Circle Media, the company behind Circle with Disney – a device that helps parents enforce their home’s internet rules and restrictions – has raised $10 million in Series A funding, the company announced this morning. The round was led by ea... |
| 18.10.2016 | Odin is a new ransomware variant that costs up to 3 BTC to unlock | A variant of the Zepto ransomware exploit – essentially a powerful system for encrypting everything on your hard drive until you supply an expensive key – is making the rounds and can cost you up to 3 bitcoins to unlock.
The new variant, ca... |
| 26.06.2016 | How the ‘insecurity of things’ creates the next wave of security opportunities | Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor
Mahendra Ramsinghani founded Secure Octane Investments, which includes Demisto, CyberGRX and 16 other infrastructure and cybersecurity companies. Mahendra authored "The Business of Venture Capital"... |
| 27.05.2016 | 6 Behind-the-Scenes Technologies Powering Your Digital Life | Technology has become an integral part of our daily lives – so much, that often we tend to forget the inner workings of these technological marvels, like the background technologies that work round-the-clock in order to help us enjoy our di... |
| 27.04.2016 | Free online service helps uncover malicious domains | Phishing sites that use domain names similar to a legitimate company’s, along with cybersquatting are a major problem. Open DNS recently claimed that cyber squatters have become more active during the US election campaign.
Web security solu... |
| 04.11.2015 | “Circle With Disney” Is A New Device That Helps Families Manage Online Usage And Apps | Parents looking to manage their children’s internet usage and screen time have a new option with today’s launch of Circle with Disney, a hardware device that works in conjunction with an iOS application that allows moms and dads to filter w... |
| 04.07.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 7/4/15 | PayPal buys Xoom; Vivendi purchased 80% of Dailymotion; Uber shores up maps with Bing tech and team
Adding to the the growing list of payment startups that are exiting this year, PayPal acquired digital money transfer provider Xoom.
The dea... |
| 02.07.2015 | Cisco to Acquire OpenDNS | Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is to acquire OpenDNS, a security company based in San Francisco.
Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay $635 million in cash and assumed equity awards, plus retention based incentives for OpenDNS. The acquisi... |
| 02.07.2015 | Cisco-OpenDNS Deal Shows Importance of DNS in Security, Dyn CEO Says | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cisco is paying $635 million for privately held OpenDNS, a company founded in 2005 by David Ulevitch, to further build out its cloud-based security business. But the deal is a... |
| 30.06.2015 | Cisco Wants To Buy OpenDNS Because The Intranet Is Dead | When I dropped in last month on David Ulevitch, the CEO of OpenDNS, he was cheerily bounding around the rapidly expanding home base of his Internet security empire in San Francisco’s SoMa district. He’d taken over the other side of the buil... |
| 30.06.2015 | Cisco acquires cloud security company OpenDNS for $635M | Networking technology giant Cisco has announced that it’s acquiring cloud-based security company OpenDNS in a deal worth $635 million.
Founded out of San Francisco in 2005, OpenDNS provides a cross-platform online threat-protection service ... |
| 30.06.2015 | Cisco To Buy Cloud Security Company OpenDNS for $635M In Cash | Cisco announced its intent to buy cloud security company OpenDNS for $635 million this morning. It’s probably not a coincidence that Cisco was one of its investors in a $35 million round in May, 2014.
The $635 million will be paid in cash a... |
| 30.06.2015 | Cisco acquires cloud security company OpenDNS for $635M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Networking technology giant Cisco has announced t... |
| 30.03.2015 | Court orders Pirate Bay blockade, users defeat it within minutes | Ever since the Pirate Bay, the online repository of free (and not always legal) movies, music, games, and other media, sprung back to life two months ago, things have been running pretty much as normal. But the popular torrent site still fa... |
| 12.02.2015 | The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards | The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards ceremony took place on February 5th at the Louise M Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.
In case you missed the chance to watch it online, you can watch it here:
Welcoming the winners
Showcasing and rewa... |
| 04.12.2014 | OpenDNS opens its platform to allow intelligence sharing | As the IT landscape changes and employees are more likely to be accessing cloud services on a range of devices, it's important that they remain properly protected from threats.
Cloud-delivered security service OpenDNS has announced that it'... |
| 03.07.2014 | Order restored to universe as Microsoft surrenders confiscated No-IP domains | Lucas Taylor reader comments 120 with 61 posters participating, including story author
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| 15.05.2014 | OpenDNS Raises $35M | OpenDNS, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a cloud-delivered security platform, raised $35m in funding.
Backers included existing investors Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures and new investors Glynn Capital, Cis... |
| 15.05.2014 | Funding Daily: Throwing money into clouds, cars, and a social network | Welcome aboard the guided tour of today’s noteworthy technology-funding news. Uber reportedly raising a new round at $10B valuation
Alternative-cab service Uber is raising another big funding round, this time with the potential to give it a... |
| 15.05.2014 | OpenDNS Raises $35M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Provider of cloud-delivered security, today announced a $35 million investment round.
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| 14.05.2014 | OpenDNS raises $35M for its security and content-filtering servers | OpenDNS, a company that provides a variety of services that includes protecting companies and individuals from cyberattacks, just raised a $35 million round of funding from a host of investors.
“OpenDNS is a true innovator among security co... |
| 14.05.2014 | OpenDNS Raises $35M From Cisco For Its Cloud-Based Enterprise Network Security As A Service | Cloud-based enterprise network security company OpenDNS has raised $35 million in Series C funding from Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Glynn Capital, Cisco, Evolution Equity, Lumia Capital, Mohr Davidow Ventures, ... |
| 21.03.2014 | Twitter Says It Is Standing By Its Users In Turkey, Hopes To Have Access ‘Returned Soon’ | Help appears to be at hand for advocates of free speech in Turkey, where Twitter access has been cut off after the Prime Minister accused it of helping people spread false information about him. Twitter has announced that it is standing by ... |
| 12.03.2014 | Forced to use Windows XP past April? 10 ways to make the best of a bad situation | I've been pressing my day to day clients, as well as informed readers here on BetaNews, on the case for ditching Windows XP altogether. I'm guessing by now that chances are, if you're still running XP at this point, you're probably going to... |
| 28.08.2013 | Twitter and New York Times clash with hackers for control of their sites | Paul Drummoond reader comments 62 with 34 posters participating, including story author
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| 27.08.2013 | New York Times, Twitter, Other Sites Reportedly Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army | Several prominent media sites and a few media-related Twitter feeds went down Tuesday following an apparent attack by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the New York Times reported. Among the sites affected were the NYT itself, the Washingto... |
| 23.07.2013 | Funding Daily: Royal Baby! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
What do the startups below and the royal baby hav... |
| 23.07.2013 | OpenDNS raises $9.26M to protect the Internet one domain at a time | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
OpenDNS watches tons of IP addresses and knows wh... |
| 10.09.2012 | GoDaddy outage makes websites unavailable for many Internet users (Updated) | reader comments 60 with 41 posters participating
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GoDaddy, one of the Internet's biggest webhosting providers, experienced technical difficulties on Monday that prevented ma... |
| 11.04.2012 | From Minor Ventures To Big Leagues — Keep Your Eye On Ron Palmeri’s Latest Firm, MkII Ventures | You’ve probably heard of a few newish venture-operator groups out there — Betaworks, Churn Labs and Science, Inc are some examples. They’re basically organizations that take the idea of incubation to the next level, by being professional ve... |
| 05.03.2012 | Spotflux Encrypts All The Web Things Anywhere | I’m on a privacy tear today so I thought I’d mention this start-up. Officially launching on Wednesday, Spotflux is a browser encryption plug-in for Windows and OS X. Simply put, it protects your Internet connection by encrypting all connect... |
| 09.12.2011 | Tired of ads on your Xbox dashboard? Reddit shows you how to block them | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Xbox Metro dashboard has brought lots of shiny new features to the console, but many gamers are troubled by the amount of advertisi... |
| 05.12.2011 | DNSCrypt Encrypts Your DNS Traffic Because There’s Always Someone Out To Get You | We’ve talked about OpenDNS quite a bit over the years, noting that these guys know what geeks like: free, fast DNS lookups that smooth out the Internet’s rough edges and shave seconds off of many web tasks. Now OpenDNS is offering DNSCrypt,... |
| 09.11.2011 | OpenDNS Tells Congress Not To Create The Great Firewall Of America | When I went to Washington DC a few weeks ago with other entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, one of those whom I had the pleasure of meeting and walking the halls of Congress with was David Ulevitch, the CEO of OpenDNS, the world’s larges... |
| 04.10.2011 | How to Unblock The Pirate Bay | Update: This post is for the Belgium blockade only, where IP-addresses are not blocked. This doesn’t work in the UK, Netherlands etcetera. There, people have to use VPNs or proxy sites.
Update: TPB shared some unblocking tips here.
Today, t... |
| 30.08.2011 | The global internet speedup initiative will make web video faster | Get ready for a ride on the Global Internet Speedup Initiative. It’s an alliance of companies who want to make the internet faster by shortening the distance that data has to travel when someone is requesting it.
With the new standard, it w... |
| 18.08.2011 | OpenDNS Now Serving 30 Million Customers | Everyone’s favorite alternative DNS service, OpenDNS, is now serving up DNS to 30 million customers world-wide. The company announced this milestone in a short release and notes that they are now sending out more DNS goodness than any other... |
| 08.08.2011 | UK Report Shows Futility Of US Anti-Piracy Law | Last week UK business secretary Vince Cable confirmed that the website blocking provisions put in place under the country’s controversial Digital Economy Act would be abandoned. Communications regulator OFCOM had been asked to conduct a rev... |
| 09.12.2010 | OpenDNS Comes Out Against COICA Censorship | Broadband Reports points us to a blog post from OpenDNS’s founder and CEO, David Ulevitch, highlighting the dangers of COICA. He notes that services like OpenDNS already allow individuals the choice to block access to certain websites, but ... |
| 30.09.2010 | DNS Service Provider OpenDNS Gets A $4.5 Million Injection | According to an SEC filing, DNS service provider OpenDNS has raised more capital, $4.5 million to be specific. We’ve confirmed the additional financing with the company and learned that this was an inside round handled by Sequoia Capital an... |
| 25.08.2010 | 27 Billion Queries Served: OpenDNS Sees Record Traffic | I personally love OpenDNS, at least as much as you can love a DNS service. It offers a number of admin features that are usually reserved for bigger and badder ISPs and the service is free, fast, and fun (not really, but I liked the alliter... |
| 13.08.2010 | OpenDNS has stopped more than a million attempts to steal your identity | Internet security firm OpenDNS is announcing today that it has stopped more than a million online scams aimed at stealing your identity.
OpenDNS runs the world’s largest DNS (Domain Name Service), or address book for the internet. Back in 2... |
| 08.07.2010 | OpenDNS wants to help you remind your boss about SysAdmin Appreciation Day | System Administrator Appreciation Day is July 30. OpenDNS wants to make sure that you sysadmins get the recognition you deserve. That’s why they ran the SysAdmin of the Year contest. And now they want to remind your boss to say “thank you” ... |
| 23.06.2010 | OpenDNS Launches FamilyShield, Free Parental Controls Service for Web | Have kids? Have a computer? Then you’ve likely installed or have at least considered installing some form of Internet protection software, like the parental control software from Net Nanny or CyberPatrol. But in this new era of everything-a... |
| 04.06.2010 | OpenDNS celebrates SysAdmin Appreciation Month with a contest for SysAdmin of the Year | I’m on paternity leave for a bit, so I’m not doing any of my normal sysadmin stuff. But there are countless sysadmins still out there working hard to make sure that your systems and networks just work. The curse of the sysadmin is that the ... |
| 23.03.2010 | OpenDNS Now Serves 1% Of The Internet (That's A Big Number) | When you think of one percent of something, it’s usually not a very big number. But in some cases it is. Like when you’re talking about all of the users of the Internet in the world.
Today, OpenDNS is announcing that over one percent of the... |
| 01.01.2010 | Namebench: Google's 20% Project To Find The Fastest DNS Server | When Google launched its own DNS service last month, one of the main stated goals behind the project was speed. The problem is that most Internet users have no idea what a DNS server is, let alone how to configure one, or test how fast it i... |
| 03.12.2009 | Google launches DNS service for faster, more Google-controlled web | Google announced today that it’s launching its own DNS resolution service, which it says will improve the experience of browsing the web. (See our easy setup instructions at the end of this post.)
A DNS service directs your web browser by t... |
| 03.12.2009 | Google Public DNS service not ideal for everyone | reader comments 47 with 42 posters participating, including story author
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| 03.12.2009 | Google Wants to Speed Up the Web: Launches Its Own DNS Service | Google just launched the Google Public DNS. Just like OpenDNS, Google Public DNS will allow users to bypass their ISPs Domain Name Servers (DNS). DNS servers are, in many respects, the backbone of the Internet. DNS allows you to type a doma... |
| 03.12.2009 | Google Gets Into The DNS Business. Here's What That Means | Google just announced Google Public DNS, a new service that lets consumers use Google as their DNS service provider. The benefits to users are a theoretically faster and more stable browsing experience, and some additional security against ... |
| 21.10.2009 | Fundador da OpenDNS apresenta planos pagos | Quem acompanha o Tecnoblog há algum tempo já sabe que todos da equipe usamos e recomendamos a OpenDNS, melhor provedor de DNS que existe hoje em dia. Ele é simples de configurar, fácil de usar e totalmente gratuito.
Aprenda a instalar a Ope... |
| 28.07.2009 | Downside Of OpenDNS: It Can Extend Website Outages | Hosting provider SoftLayer was partially taken down this morning from a DDOS attack, and several well known websites, including TechMeme and TwitPic, went down with it.
The problem at SoftLayer was resolved, but some users of OpenDNS, a DNS... |
| 14.07.2009 | OpenDNS takes funds to prevent outages, block sites | OpenDNS, a Domain Name Service provider that helps users avoid ISP outages and block specific web domains, has raised an undisclosed amount of first-round funding from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners. Founded in 2006, the San Francisc... |
| 07.07.2009 | Sequoia, Greylock Take Stake In OpenDNS | It isn’t the sexiest startup in Silicon Valley, but San Francisco based OpenDNS just closed one of the most competitive venture capital deals in recent history. Top tier firms Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners came out the winners. The ... |
| 04.11.2008 | Business IT unlocked - Internet content filtering for under £50 | Business IT unlocked - Internet content filtering for under £50
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Your IT systems do a lot more than you realise - and your money can go a lot further than you thought. This week IT consultant Richard Bartlett reveals two low cost-... |
| 25.07.2008 | That DNS flaw is the real deal, but many ISPs still haven't applied patch | Oh, AFP
That DNS flaw that we mentioned a few days ago has been discovered by “hackers,” and is currently being “weaponized,” says a top Internet security expert.
The attack makes use of cache poisoning to re-direct traffic. Worst case scen... |
| 23.07.2008 | DNS Flaw Is A Serious Security Threat | Aaron Massey has a good write-up of the DNS vulnerability that was discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky and leaked onto the Internet this week. In a nutshell, a flaw in the design of the DNS protocol (which translates domain names... |
| 22.07.2008 | Learning The Hard Way That DNS Is Insecure: Attack Details Now Public | There are times when the full disclosure of a security vulnerability works well for everybody, and there are times when it does not. One such case where it hasn’t worked out well is with the DNS security vulnerabilities recently ‘discovered... |
| 20.07.2008 | OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites | OpenDNS, a San Francisco based startup founded by Minor Ventures and David Ulevitch, first launched in mid-2006 as a free tool to speed up web surfing and protect users from phishing and other malware sites.
OpenDNS isn’t exactly a sexy ser... |
| 11.04.2008 | Why oh why does OpenDNS keep telling me Facebook is 'down'? It's not! | For whatever nerdy reason I switched over to OpenDNS about a month ago. Actually, no. The reason was because I was tired of seeing that stupid Time Warner Road Runner every time I mistyped a URL or whatever. Well now OpenDNS refuses to load... |
| 02.01.2008 | Phishing For Facebook | I’m not sure what the bad guys want with a bunch of Facebook user account credentials, but phishing scams seem to be hitting the site. Scott Fish notes that some users are seeing Wall posts that contain links to phishing sites to gather Fac... |
| 14.11.2007 | Verizon's DNS Policy May Be Bad, But It's Not A Network Neutrality Violation | While Comcast has been getting a lot of flack for blocking BitTorrent, some network neutrality activists have also been calling out Verizon for the way its DNS servers work. The DNS specification requires that servers return an error if the... |
| 24.08.2007 | Check This Guy Out | Bill Snitzer, one of the tech guys at BitGravity, is driving to Los Angeles and showing it live on the Internet. He’s got a webcam up showing the drive and a Google Map mashup with a GPS device showing his progress.
Bitgravity, located in B... |
| 21.06.2007 | Verizon Tries Out DNS Redirection Service, But Will It Charge? | Last week, customers of Verizon's ISPs in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin learned of an interesting alteration to their Internet service: The company is experimenting with what it's calling an "Advanced Web Search" page... |
| 11.06.2007 | OpenDNS Now Keeps Babies Safe From Boobies | Fans of OpenDNS — everyone at CG uses it, I know that much — will now be able to block pornographic sites with the click of a button. The service uses St. Bernard’s iGuard, a service that apparently scours the web for PR()N so you don’t hav... |
| 18.05.2007 | The DNS Disaster (with Contest!) | I’ve been a Bellsouth DSL subscriber for about 10 years now. It has at times been a tumultuous relationship. In the beginning I gamed quite a bit and there were issues, but after a year of complaining everything balanced out. It’s been grea... |
| 23.04.2007 | OpenDNS Adds Short-Cut Service | DNS is boring, but OpenDNS has added a new Shortcut feature that lets you visit URLs without all that nasty typing. Shortcuts are short, multi-letter abbreviations for your favorite sites. Instead of typing “www.nytimes.com,” you can just t... |
| 23.04.2007 | OpenDNS: The Ultimate In Short-Cut Coolness | DNS is boring. Seriously. I’m yawning as I type this. However, OpenDNS is adding some very unusual features to their already speedy nameserver service.
OpenDNS is a separate DNS nameserver system that offers a few interesting things. First,... |
| 03.10.2006 | Roundup of latest stuff: Perenety’s shift, social anti-phishing & more | Perenety, the PC to PC file-sharing company, has raised $1.6M, and is shifting strategy — We’ll be hearing more from this Sunnyvale start-up soon.
After tooling around with peer to peer file-sharing, the company has decided that doing this ... |
| 13.09.2006 | Why do we pay Internet Bad Guys? | (Editor’s note: David Ulevitch, who runs OpenDNS, has written a notable post below about the scams being run on Web users, and how big companies like Google and Yahoo aren’t doing much about it. Why is Google accepting money from “fraudulen... |
| 09.08.2006 | Fat Fingers, Cameroon's Latest Natural Resource | Not to be outdone by its Nigerian neighbors, Cameroon has come up with a new way to make some money off the Net. Blessed with a fortunate top-level domain, .cm, the Cameroon registry redirects any unregistered .cm domain to a page full of a... |
| 18.07.2006 | OpenDNS wants to watch the web for you | OpenDNS is a new start up that wants users to redirect web traffic through its DNS nameservers, where an unusually large cache and an aggregated list of sites deemed guilty of phishing will make our web surfing faster and safer. It’s free a... |
| - | Qual o melhor DNS [e por que?] | Utilizar um bom serviço de DNS pode ajudar a melhorar, de forma significativa, a qualidade do acesso à internet. Para ajudar você a tirar o máximo proveito da sua conexão, nós testamos os mais conhecidos para concluir: afinal, qual é o melh... |
| - | Como atualizar IP dinâmico na OpenDNS | Sou grande fã da OpenDNS. A empresa é pioneira em oferecer resolução de DNS eficiente, com muitos recursos que podem ser úteis, principalmente para pais e mães de família (bloqueio de sites contendo pornografia, por exemplo).
OpenDNS para d... |
| - | OpenDNS: deixe a sua internet mais rápida | Quem nunca reclamou da velocidade de sua conexão com a internet é um afortunado. E pode parar de ler esse post neste ponto, já que a dica do dia é para os usuários que querem tentar uma forma de fazer com que o carregamento das páginas ocor... |
| - | Mais segurança e bloqueio de sites – OpenDNS Parte 2 | Na última semana eu falei um pouco sobre como deixar a conexão mais rápida usando o serviço de DNS OpenDNS, do qual já faço uso há mais de um ano e recomendo fortemente – tanto que é meu segundo post sobre o serviço.
No entanto, velocidade ... |
