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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

January 24, 2020 admin arno vis, csc, DNSpionage, dnssec, e-hawk, e-hawk.net, Latest Warnings, openprovider, pdr, peter cholnoky, public domain registry, raymond dijkxhoorn, registrar lock, registry lock, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:37:11 +0000

If you’re running a business online, few things can be as disruptive or destructive to your brand as someone stealing your company’s domain name and doing whatever they wish with it. Even so, most major Web site owners aren’t taking full advantage of the security tools available to protect their domains from being hijacked. Here’s the story of one recent victim who was doing almost everything possible to avoid such a situation and still had a key domain stolen by scammers.

Independent Krebs

A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

February 18, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, APNIC, Bill Woodcock, Cisco Talos, Comodo, CrowdStrike, data breaches, DHS, DNSpionage, dnssec, EPP, extensible provisioning protocol, Farsight Security, FireEye, Frobbit, ICANN, John Crain, Key Systems, Lars Michael Jogbäck, LetsEncrypt, Netnod, Packet Clearing House, Patrik Fältström, PCH, SecurityTrails, The Coming Storm, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:51:01 +0000

The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. But to date, the specifics of exactly how that attack went down and who was hit have remained shrouded in secrecy. This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers.

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DNSSEC: why do we need it?

February 27, 2017 admin authentication, certificate, dnssec, domain name security, Pieter Arntz, Security world, Technology

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:00:54 +0000

We take a look at what DNSSEC is and why we need it. Plus an overview of how far the implementation has progressed in the Netherlands based on a SIDN report.

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