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2012

Phishing is not just for banks

In this article at blogs.technet.com are interesting examples of phishing websites.

In this article at blogs.technet.com are interesting examples of p…

The leaders of the Internet community will meet in Prague next week

From 24 to 29 June, Prague will host an international meeting of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the world’s top authori…

Beware of fake antivirus program Android Security Suite Premium

As is recommended by author of this article at blog.webroot.com site, when you downloading Android apps choose them wisely and download from a truste…

MySQL liner hack gives root access without password

The latest news that has hit the streets is the occurence of the easiest hack ever, if you have local shell access (any user privelege level) and you…

Hackers spread trojan following Internet Explorer patch

If you have not installed new updates from Microsoft yet, it is time to do it. More information about the trojan Naidu find in this article at scmaga…

Czech Cities and Municipalities Lagging Behind in Implementation of IPv6 Protocol

Only 15 of the 205 major cities and municipalities (with extended competence) – or just 7.3% – have IPv6-ready web services.

Prague, 5 June 2012 – Mos…

CZ.NIC Association, EURid, and NIX.CZ Support World IPv6 Day with Professional Conference

This meeting will take place at the National Technical Library in Dejvice, Prague with the active participation of representatives of operators, the …

New members of the CZ.NIC Association

The companies Gransy s. r. o. (Chamber of Registrars) and Seznam.cz, a. s. (Chamber of Domain Name Holders) are new members of the CZ.NIC Association…

Czech Republic a Superpower in the Transition to IPv6

The Czech Republic is the leader in the implementation of IPv6. The Czech Republic, with 8.6 % of websites available over IPv6, is followed by Sloven…

Ondřej Filip Re-Elected Member of UN Secretary General’s Advisory Body

For many years, the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) has been the UN Secretary General’s advisory body for the Internet Governance Forum which w…

CZ.NIC released DNSSEC Validator for Internet Explorer (version 0.1.1)

CZ.NIC has released an alpha version of the DNSSEC Validator extension for Internet Explorer. The most important change in this version is the abilit…

CZ.NIC Domain Report: A rise in the pace of new domains

A total of 131,907 new domains were added to the registry of the Czech national domain in 2011, the greatest annual growth in the history of the .CZ …

CZ.NIC Creates Its First Internet Standard

The author of RFC 6594 is Ondřej Surý, the head of the Research and Development Centre at the CZ.NIC Laboratory.

Prague, 10 April 2012 - The Czech Nat…

Agreement with the Ministry of the Interior Replaced by a Memorandum with the NSA

On 1 April, the agreement with the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic was superseded by a new memorandum with the National Security Autho…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company CISCO SYSTEMS (Czech Republic) s. r. o. is a new member of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 April 2012. CISCO SYSTEMS (Czech Republic) beco…

The First Final Version of the Knot DNS Server is Released

The main advantages are its performance, scalability, speed and the possibility to add and remove zones during operation without shutting down the se…

CZ.NIC reports 900,000 registered .CZ domains

Domain number 900,000 was recorded at 16:12:14.

Prague, 13 February 2012 – The CZ.NIC Association, the administrator of the .CZ domain, recorded the d…

Labs Publish Application for Security Teams

The CZ.NIC Laboratories have published a new web application for managing threats related to the DNS system: the Malicious Domain Manager, released a…

The wholesale price of .CZ domains drops

The annual registration fee for maintaining .CZ domains has dropped from CZK 140 to CZK 125 (both excluding VAT).

The annual registration fee for main…

New members of the CZ.NIC Association

Companies CD PROFESIONAL security agency, s. r. o., PP Partners Prague, a. s., PharoCom s. r. o., ABAK, spol. s r. o., Družstvo EUROSIGNAL and FreeTe…

DNSSEC Validator extension for Google Chrome

CZ.NIC Labs released the first alpha version of DNSSEC Validator extension for Google Chrome. It contains functionality similar to that of the Firefo…

.CZ Domain is World Leader in DNSSEC Implementation

More than 35 percent of the domains. CZ is now protected by DNSSEC.

Prague, 9 January 2012 – At the turn of 2011 and 2012, five Czech .CZ domain regis…

2011

CZ.NIC Has Announced New Prices for .CZ Domain

As of 1 January and then also as of 1 February 2012, the prices for services under .CZ domains will change. Click here for individual versions.

As of …

New members of the CZ.NIC Association

The companies Google Czech Republic, s. r. o., Orego finance s. r. o. and SVBsfot, s. r. o. become a members of the Chamber of domain name holders, O…

CZ.NIC Introduces Its Own DNS Server – a Significant Contribution to Internet Stability

Association representatives introduced the Knot DNS server today at the RIPE 63 international conference in Vienna.

Prague, 3 November 2011 – Browsing…

The mojeID Service Celebrates First Birthday

In the Czech Republic are more then 28,000 internet users with their mojeID identity.

Prague, 26 October 2011 – The mojeID service, which, allows use…

CZ.NIC aims to protect domain holders

The most significant change for domain holders is the extension of the protective period prior to the cancellation of the domain from the current 45…

International Internet Security Workshop Begins in Prague

Workshop is organized by EUROPOL and ENISA in cooperation with CSIRT.CZ, the national computer security incident response team in the Czech Republic.

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New members of the CZ.NIC Association

The companies CYBERSALES a. s., I. H. P. spol. s r. o., Ubuntu Civic Association for the Czech Republic and ÚVT s. r. o. are new members of the CZ.NI…

6th CERT/CSIRT workshop

The traditional workshop organized by ENISA in cooperation with EUROPOL will be held in Prague on 3 and 4 October 2011.

The traditional workshop org…

CZ.NIC brings clarity to the domain market by introducing registrar certification

As the evaluation project is intended for registrars focused on end customers.

Prague, 1 September 2011 – The popularity of the domain registration bu…

CZ.NIC and SIS - Czech DNS servers are not adequately secure

Workers on the security team of CSIRT.CZ, which is operated by the CZ.NIC association, uncovered approximately 1,500 DNS servers with a very low secu…

A new member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company 2 connect, a. s. is a new member of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 August 2011. 2 connect become a member of the Chamber of ISPs. The Ass…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company ABRATICA s. r. o. is a new member of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 July 2011. Company ABRATICA become a member of the Chamber of Domain …

Completion of CSIRT.CZ team migration

On the occasion of submitting the official request for obtaining Accredited status from the international organization TERENA TF CSIRT, the Czech Min…

Trusted Introducer accreditation

CSIRT.CZ initiated the accreditation process with the Trusted Introducer authority.

CSIRT.CZ initiated the accreditation process with the Trusted I…

CSIRT.CZ applies for international accreditation

On the occasion of submitting the official request for obtaining Accredited status from the international organization TERENA TF CSIRT, the Czech Min…

Exactly one year from now, Prague will be the capital of the internet

ICANN decided at the meeting just ending in Singapore that their next European meeting, planned for 24-29 June of next year, will be held in Prague.

P…

IPv6 World Day is an unexpected success in the Czech Republic

According to the statistics of the CZ.NIC Association, the administrator of the Czech national domain, on 8 June, one in ten .cz domains was accessib…

TF-CSIRT meeting

We participated in meeting of TF-CSIRT community. The meeting was held 2 and 3 Jun in Malahide, Ireland.

The .CZ domain is the leader in content available over IPv6

According to statistics from the CZ.NIC Association, nearly 8 % of the content on .CZ addresses is already available over the IPv6 protocol.

Prague, 7…

A new member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company Holubová - advokáti s. r. o. is a new member of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1st June 2011. The company is a member of Chamber of Domain …

Visit by ENISA delegates to CSIRT.CZ

16 May 2011 CZ.NIC Association welcomed delegates from ENISA

16 May 2011 CZ.NIC Association welcomed delegates from ENISA, the European Network and In…

Back to community as official CSIRT

February 1st, 2011 At the TF-CSIRT meeting in Barcelona (Spain) we announced inception of The national CSIRT Team of the Czech Republic.

We move under the wings of CZ.NIC

January 1st, 2011 Process of migration of agenda and operations of CSIRT.CZ

January 1st, 2011 Process of migration of agenda and operations of CSIRT.C…

Ministry of internal affairs and CZ.NIC sign Memorandum

December 2010 Ministry of internal affairs and CZ.NIC by signing Memorandum declares origin of the National CSIRT Team of the Czech Republic.

CYBER Europe 2010 – let's try

November 4th, 2010 Team CSIRT.CZ participated at the first pan-european exercise

November 4th, 2010 Team CSIRT.CZ participated at the first pan-europe…

CZ.NIC and NIX.CZ are the co-organisers of the annual conference Internet and Technology 11

The conference will take place on 8 and 9 June at Klub Lávka in Prague. The first day will be solely dedicated to the current issue of IPv6; 8 June i…

There are already 800,000 .CZ domains

Jubilee domain was registered at 8:20:48 a.m.

Prague, 13 May 2011 – The CZ.NIC Association, the administrator of the national .CZ domain, registered d…

CZ.NIC issues Domain Report for 2010

As of the end of 2010, the CZ.NIC Association had registered 748,801 .cz domains, representing an increase of almost 120,000 new domains compared to …