May 2011 Blog Posts

How people really use LinkedIn: The truth is in the numbers

LinkedIn, the world’s largest social network for professionals, filed for an IPO this week. The move has made it the no-doubt most talked about technology company and the Wall Street Journal even referred to its shares as…

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The way we're phished: More Americans click phishing scams in the morning

As we take a deeper look at phishing across the OpenDNS network to better protect you and yours, we’ve uncovered some interesting patterns about the way Americans interact with phishing emails.

- The majority of clicks on known…

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The proposed White House cybersecurity bill explained

Sifting through legislative literature can be arduous, and since we’ve already done the work we wanted to share a quick summary of what the White House is proposing around cybersecurity and how it might affect you. Please note: we…

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Call for applications: OpenDNS Moderators

OpenDNS Moderators. Let’s talk about them. Who are they? Are they ninjas? Do they ever sleep? Well, I can’t tell about the Moderators without first explaining the Domain Tagging system. Please allow me…

The Domain Tagging…

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Understanding the Facebook "Find out who views your profile" scam

Every few weeks there’s a new scam that makes the rounds on Facebook. This week it’s the “Find out who visits your profile,” scam, which we’ve all seen before. The reason it piques my interest this time is the sheer volume of…

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IPv6 Recursive DNS, Delivered Fresh

This morning we opened up our IPv6 Sandbox, starting with the most important piece – a globally-distributed recursive IPv6 DNS service. This means if you have IPv6 connectivity, you can now talk to us over native IPv6…

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