ISPs Fear IPv6 Security Threats
56 days ago
The survey polled around 70 IP network operators across the globe, reporting a continued rise in smaller scale and more sophisticated attacks, including service-level and application targeted attacks, DNS poisoning and route hijacking.
Only eight per cent of respondents believed that threats will decrease with improved IPv6 deployment, while 55 per cent thought that the threat landscape would become more risky.
Daniel Karrenberg, chief scientist at regional internet registry RIPE NCC, argued that IPv6 is not inherently any more or less secure than the current IPv4.
"Internet users need to ensure that the network-specific parts of their defences work at least as well for IPv6 as for IPv4," he said.
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