The topic of cybersecurity is increasingly discussed nowadays. 51.8% of all Internet operations are performed by bots (simple autonomous programs), which e.g. allow searching in web browsers. In many cases, they are abused for example to break the protection of personal profiles on social networks or to attack websites. Up to 90,000 websites are hacked…
Responsibility in virtual space is important for our company and that ´s why we support cybersecurity and education projects. We expect the launch of SK-NIC fund and calls for the projects in the autumn. We realize that education or security are never-ending activities in a dynamic virtual world. In the relevant SK-NIC fund there are…
As raising awareness of the cyberspace protection and security is one of our priority, we have supported the greatest IT knowledge testing in Slovak Republic once again – IT Fitness Test 2019 (Note: Slovak only). More than 25,000 solvers have been involved in testing. According to ongoing results, the average success rate is 51%. Last…
The Commission for .sk National Domain Administration, an advisory and consultative body of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Investments and Informatization (further as „the Office“) approved today an amendment of Technical Communication Policy for the .sk top-level domain. The most fundamental reform is the increase of the DNS…
The level of knowledge about security risks is relatively low in the Slovak Republic. According to the outcome of the testing across Slovakia – IT Fitness Test in 2018 (Note: Slovak only), the success of students and teachers tested in category „Security and Computer Systems“ was only 20% (actually, this annual already started). This fact…
Several tens of participants from registrars to public institutions took part in the DNS/DNSSEC workshop organized by SK-NIC in cooperation with ICANN, which took place on May 30th. Practical hands-on-labs part has been included and the participants tried out various configurations and practical exercises. Participants expressed their words of gratitute due to information received directly…
The number of domains protected by DNSSEC technology is constantly growing as the individual registrants and registrars understand the importance of this protection. As it has already been stated several times, DNSSEC is an important protection of websites, mainly against phishing or website fake data substition – read more on our dedicated webpage. Today we’ve…
SK-NIC, a.s., the registration authority for the top level domain name .sk has again become one of the main partners of the largest IT testing in Slovakia – IT Fitness test 2019, which 8th year is organised by IT Association of Slovakia in partnership with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak…
This video explains how DNSSEC works (in Slovak language with English subtitles).
The long-awaited DNSSEC (Domain Name Security Extensions) has been launched today by SK-NIC, a.s.. This service is preventing spoofing and intentional manipulation of domain names and increasing the security of the Internet and its users. The .sk root zone has been secured with the DNSSEC key using ECDSA algorithm on 19th April 2019. The service…
