Trend Micro, in a December 2009 report, The Future of Threats and Threat Technologies: How the Landscape Is Changing (PDF) predicts that changes to the Internet infrastructure will widen the playing field for cybercriminals. One of the changes Trend Micro predicts it the IPv6 Malware Experimentation Stage. The anti-virus firm points out that many weaknesses [...]
YouTube. one of the most popular,biggest time-wasters and bandwidth hogs on the web is now IPv6 too. Hurricane Electric,whose IPv6 backbone. the largest in the world reports a 30x increase in IPv6 traffic originating from YouTube.
“On Thursday, midday California time, we saw a large amount of inbound IPv6 traffic, which we knew [...]
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) reports that demands for IPv6 address space is growing. According to the 10-19-09 article, Next-generation Internet defies recession on NetworkWorld, during the first nine months of 2009, ARIN received 300 requests from carriers for blocks of IPv6 address space. This compares to 250 requests received in all of [...]
Cisco Systems is looking at IPv6 as a a critical component in securing the next-generation electricity distribution system. IPv6 is attractive to the Smart Grid initiative for two reason, the first being an abundance of IP addresses available in the expanded 128-bit address space for all the gizmos they hope to sell in [...]
NetworkWord is reporting that the U.S. government has reportedly launch a comprehensive product testing program for IPv6. The new program, USGv6 Test Program , will be run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will require all network hardware and software vendors to pass IPv6 compliance and interoperability tests before they can [...]