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DNSSEC: The Secret Weapon Against DNS Attacks 

The domain name system (DNS) is known as the phone book of the internet, quickly connecting users from their devices to their desired content. But what appears to most users as seamless ...
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Costly DNS Attacks on the Rise

While awareness of DNS security continues to grow, the cost, frequency and number of attacks remain high, while the pandemic and resulting hybrid work environments have resulted in huge disruption for organizations ...
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Why should you worry about DNS attacks?

Domain Name System (DNS) is a very basic protocol and service that enables Internet users and network devices to discover websites using human-readable hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses. This article provides ...

OWASP Appsec Tel Aviv 2019, Ruth Esmeralda Barbacil’s & Valentina Palacin’s ‘Once Upon A Time In The West – A Story On Dns Attacks’

Ruth Esmeralda Barbacil is a Senior Analyst at Deloitte Argentina, while Valentina Palacín is a Threat Intelligence Analyst at Deloitte Argentina. Permalink ...
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No Direction Home: Large Scale Worldwide DNS Attacks

via Muks Hirani, Sarah Jones and Ben Read writing at FireEye's threat research blog, comes notification of world-wide-snf-at-scale domain name system hijacks. Pre-election first-pass stakes-in-the-ground reconnaisance foundation building, or simple larcency? You ...

USENIX Security ’23 – Rasmus Dahlberg, Tobias Pulls – Timeless Timing Attacks And Preload Defenses In Tor’s DNS Cache

Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott; and ...
How to Stop Phishing Attacks with Protective DNS

How to Stop Phishing Attacks with Protective DNS

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Phishing Threats Are Increasing in Scale and Sophistication Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and widespread cybersecurity threats. This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and ...
A Look Inside the Attacker’s Toolkit: DNS DDoS Attacks

A Look Inside the Attacker’s Toolkit: DNS DDoS Attacks

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DNS is a critical infrastructure for your online services, a DNS DDoS attack risks the availability of your services. Attackers are experts in DNS and know all the weak points to target ...
Protective DNS a Scalable, Continuous Method for Detecting Log4J Attacks

Protective DNS a Scalable, Continuous Method for Detecting Log4J Attacks

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The Log4J vulnerability is easy to exploit and hard to detect instantaneously—unless you’re monitoring your DNS traffic. Earlier this month, a critical remote code execution vulnerability was announced in the open-source Java-based ...

The Big Twitter Hack, Critical Windows DNS Server Update, Email Impersonation Attacks

In episode 130 for July 20th 2020: Details on the big Twitter hack which took over high-profile accounts, a major wormable critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows DNS Server, and how email impersonation ...