The transition to IPv6 has cyber-threats

Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft Bing and others have begun to move to IPv6.



8th June 2011 is a historic day for the Internet world. That day began a series of major global companies Internet service to the old standard Internet addressing (IPv4) to IPv6, the next generation.


IPv6 City of the World Day, 9 June 2011, companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, Meebo, Plurk, Bing, a vast virtual world, who are willing to deliver their services over IPv6. There are a total of 434 institutions that conduct the tests for 24 hours.


After Darric Hor, CEO of Symantec is to motivate PT Indonesia in his written statement, one of the goals of the experience of transition to other organizations in the industry.


As we know, have Internet service provider (ISP) to prepare computer hardware manufacturer, the manufacturer of the operating system and Web companies for IPv6 services. This ensures a successful transition from IPv4 addresses that have been used since 1983, has run around 2012.


As an example, using the old IP address (IPv4), it can not 4,294,967,296 IP addresses that can be used anywhere in the world. If IPv6 (implemented as of 1999) offer 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IP address.


"The problem is, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a huge opportunity for manufacturers of malware and other cyber-criminals is vulnerable," said Darric. "The introduction of IPv6 is also possibly to other problems," he said.


Firewall software and hardware, said Darric can participate if they fail to recognize the situation and come to check IPv6 traffic. "During the transition to IPv6 protocol, we are working with a situation where we need to create a new threat that is not currently facing learning look real," he said.


To this end consult each Darric offenders and users in the Internet industry to always update their security applications, including Firewall, to ensure that the threat will be present to diminmalisir.