Major Internet Security Update by 2011

The good news? VeriSign claims a significant internet security vulnerability will be fixed. The bad news? It isn’t happening until 2011.

The problem is that DNS, the Domain Name System that translates internet addresses such as website URLs into numerical values, can be seeded with false values and used to misdirect users. VeriSign told ZDNet on Friday that it will put in place DNSSEC, a protocol which will guarantee the origin and integrity of DNS data, for the .com and .net domains by the first quarter of 2011.

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