Malware not scanning IPv6 space (yet)
The chief scientist of a group responsible for providing a stable online infrastructure in Australia says the evolution in the internet's lingua franca is safer from web nasties than that in use today.
Geoff Huston presented research results last week into "dark traffic" in IPv6, the next iteration of internet protocol, the chief scientist for the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre concluding there was no evidence virus scanners probed its empty-address blocks.
Dark traffic was "spam, e-mail denial-of-service attacks, malformed SMTP [e-mail protocol] packets and other requests and communications unrelated to the delivery of valid email messages", according to Net Security magazine. Huston's research was published on his blog before being shown at the AusNOG conference in Sydney last week.
