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Business planning and decision-making platform company, Anaplan has announced that Charles “Charlie” Gottdiener has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors.

A Juniper Research whitepaper created with Neustar covers the state of the market and how to solve the challenges of unwanted robocalling.

American technology company Neustar says the new manager of the .au domain namespace, Afilias, has made a number of incorrect assertions about the time when Neustar was managing the .au namepsace, and issued a blog post about what it says are claims that need to be clarified.

Two new appointees for neutral provider of real-time info services Neustar are claimed to be in order to "drive growth, product innovation, new roadmaps, go-to-market strategies and better security solutions for its customers".

While the flaw in the WPA2 protocol reported overnight compromises wireless networks, point-to-point encryption between devices and websites or applications should still be secure, a senior technology professional says.

An account director at the analytics firm Neustar has leaked a whole email conversation with a prospective customer to iTWire, presumably because he is unaware how to use email.

ANALYSIS A study on distributed denial of service attacks in 2016 and the first few months of 2017 by the analytics company Neustar raises the question of whether the number of individuals sampled is sufficient to come to the conclusions that have been reached.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the hottest growth areas with major benefits for big data and analytics. But many of these devices are vulnerable and have been harnessed for some of the largest DDoS attacks in history. Should Australia legislate for security as, say, Europe has recently done?

Mitigation of distributed denial of service attacks in the first 11 months of 2016 by information services vendor Neustar have increased by 40% over the previous year, the company claims in a report.

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack at its most basic level is where a website is flooded with traffic to bog it down so much that it cannot respond. Competitors may use a DDoS to drive traffic from a site. A DDoS can be hired as a service on the dark web. When a site is under attack, companies can't maintain stakeholder communications.

The right to sell .web domain names has sold at auction for a record US$135 million, more than thrice the previous record for a new Top-Level Domain (TLD) — .shop — which a bidder snapped up for a cool US$41 million earlier this year.

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, today announced the addition of the PathFinder Service '” a GSMA-managed service operated by Neustar, Inc., '” to its IPX (IP eXchange) service, enabling operators to support route identification and deliver interoperability for all voice and data services in converged IP environments. GSMA PathFinder is a Number Translation Service that facilitates IP interoperability by translating telephone numbers to IP-based addresses. Based on carrier Electronic Numbering (ENUM), PathFinder is the market-leading source for Mobile Number Portability (MNP) resolution on the IPX.