A while back, we wrote a post about one of the biggest security flaws on the Internet: a critical flaw in the way DNS worked allowed hackers to hijack communications and redirect your web traffic away from your site to malicious sites instead.  It's called DNS cache poisoning, and it poses a really big threat.

While individual ISPs have started implementing their own security fixes, a group of technologists have been working on long-term, system-wide solutions. Most experts are now looking at DNSSEC as the solution. This protocol would verify DNS traffic with a digital signature, stopping hijackers before they can redirect.

The Public Interest Registry, which governs the .org top-level domain (TLD), is already implementing DNSSEC across all .org domains and should be finished early this year. In fact, PIR had been lobbying for and preparing to implement the protocol for some time.

It's nice to see the nonprofit sector so well represented, and a technology leader, no less!