Transition to IPv6 Presents Cyber ​​Threats

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June 8, 2011 is an historic day for the world of Internet. On that day, a number of the world's major Internet service companies began to replace the old standard of Internet addressing (IPv4) to IPv6 the next generation.
Excerpted from the World IPv6 Day, June 9, 2011, companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, Meebo, Plurk, Bing, is a giant virtual world that is ready to provide their services via IPv6. In total, there are 434 institutions that conduct trials for 24 hours.
According Darric Hor, General Manager of PT Symantec Indonesia in his written statement, one of the objectives of the experiment the transition is to motivate other organizations across the industry.
As is known, internet service provider (ISP), hardware maker, makers of operating systems and web companies need to prepare their IPv6 services. This will ensure a successful transition after the IPv4 addresses that have been used since 1983 used up, around 2012.
As an illustration, using the old IP addressing (IPv4), can only exist 4,294,967,296 IP addresses that could be used around the world. While IPv6 (implemented starting 1999) offers for 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IP address.
"The problem, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a huge opportunity for makers of malware and other cyber criminals in carrying out attacks," said Darric. "In addition, the adoption of IPv6 is also potentially cause other problems," he said.
Software and hardware firewalls, said Darric, can penetrate if they are not able to detect and inspect IPv6 traffic is coming from. "When switching to IPv6 protocol, we face a condition in which we need to learn a new threat, which is currently not evident," he said.
To that end, Darric advised on any actor in the Internet industry and users to always be updating their security applications including firewalls to ensure that the threat will be present to minimized.

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