The trial implementation of IPv6 as the future of the internet protocol went smoothly, on Wednesday (08/06/2011), in a movement along the so-called Day of the IPv6 World. A number of participating sites to try out a version that supports IPv6 traffic is not impaired. However, anticipation of problems that may be encountered during the process of migration from IPv4 internet protocol that is used today to IPv6 still need attention.
Beware! Virus Makers will Use and exploit IPv6 Migration Process
World Day to test IPv6 implemntasi at hundreds of sites is an important step for the application of the full replacement of the protocol. But when undergo a transition to the new IP standard, there will be a situation where the threats that were not previously visible, will appear gradually as the malware authors know this transition and begin to make adaptations.
According to a note written by Cathal Mullaney from Symantec, from a security standpoint, this transition raises several potential new problems. IPv6 transition instance can be attractive to malware authors. With the introduction of IPv6, cyber criminals will do a scan to determine the IPv6 address network weaknesses or find a way to do the attack.
Anti-virus companies and system / network administrators must understand these potential threats and acts of anticipation. A case usually, Symantec recommends that the definitions, signatures, and firewall rules in the network to be updated to ensure protected from new threats.
IPv6 is a new internet protocol that was developed in anticipation of the IPv4 protocol is soon full. Systems Internet Protocol (IP) address is a network addressing system, which is the most important part of a process of information access and communication. Since 1983 until now a common addressing system used is the IPv4 address with a capacity of approximately 4.2 billion.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), an international official institutions managing the IP address of the data release that the number of IPv4 addresses remaining from currently more or less only the remaining 10 percent of the initial capacity or about 400 million addresses only. This amount is insufficient to anticipate the development of internet users today are very remarkable coupled with the development of future telecommunications technologies are IP-based. While IPv6 provides billions of Internet addresses is much larger times.
