July 2012 Blog Posts

From Black Hat: Step up and join the fight against anonymous hackers

Recently, security breaches at several websites such as LinkedIn, Yahoo, and eHarmony have made headlines when each company had their databases compromised, resulting in millions of passwords being leaked to the public. …

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Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day

Here at OpenDNS, we’re all about the SysAdmins. Which is why SysAdmin Appreciation Day is the biggest holiday of the year here.

OpenDNS was designed from the ground up with the SysAdmins who would ultimately choose and manage it…

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Noticed less spam lately? This could be why.

Here’s some good news you probably won’t hear every day: your inbox is going to have less spam.

How is this possible you ask?

On July 18, the New York Times announced that the world’s no. 3 botnet “Grum” has been…

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Field Reports: How OpenDNS Enterprise ensures a safe learning environment, despite rapid growth.

Today we’re excited to share the story of Gestalt Community Schools (GCS), a Memphis, Tenn. charter school network devoted to creating educational opportunities in struggling Memphis communities. For this edition of Field…

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SysAdmin Awards: Coolest. Trophy. Ever.

When we set to work on building trophies for the 2012 SysAdmin awards, we knew we wanted to incorporate the cool superhero imagery created by our designer, Maryam, for the program.  We discussed several different ways of bringing…

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Calling all elite security experts: Apply to be among the first malware domain taggers

OpenDNS Domain Tagging is a well-oiled system that empowers our global community of security researchers, academics, IT professionals and generally invested people to contribute to website classification. People can either submit…

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Field Reports: Thoughts from an OpenDNS Enterprise Insights early adopter

A few weeks ago we introduced you to OpenDNS Enterprise Insights, a new service we promised would make your work easier and your network instantly more secure. The service offers a granular view into your organization’s network…

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Field Reports: Why Houston Public Schools trusts OpenDNS to keep students and teachers safe online.

It’s one of our favorite stats: 1 in 3 U.S. K-12 public schools use OpenDNS.  But why do so many schools choose the service?  In this edition of Field Reports, we talk to Houston Public Schools Information Technology Director…

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OpenDNS security research: “Blackhole” Exploit Kit DGA Analysis

[ Editor's note: Our new security research team is cranking out information faster than we can create a security blog.  So for now, we're sharing some of the cool stuff they are doing here. Here's one of their first pieces,…

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SysAdmin Caption Contest Top 10. Can you do better?

The 2012 SysAdmin Awards are well underway and the submissions are pouring in. In case you haven’t yet noticed, we’re having a caption contest. Because we think showing the current leaders helps fuel friendly competition, here are…

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