Government Targets

80% Of Government Websites Miss DNS Security Deadline

21 January 2010

COMPUTER WORLD (FRAMINGHAM, MA) - Most U.S. federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, failed meet a 31 December 2009 deadline to deploy new authentication mechanisms on their Web sites that would prevent hackers from hijacking Web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites. In August 2008, the Office of Management and Budget required federal agencies to roll out an extra layer of security on their .gov Web sites known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). DNSSEC is an Internet Standard that allows websites to verify their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and public-key encryption to prevent spoofing attacks. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9147018/80_of_gov_t_Web_sites_miss_DNS_security_deadline?taxonomyId=13&pageNumber=2 (Reliability: 47.94 -- High)