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Vast USPS Delivery Phishing Campaign Sees Threat Actors Abusing Freemium Dynamic DNS and SaaS Providers

Vast USPS Delivery Phishing Campaign Sees Threat Actors Abusing Freemium Dynamic DNS and SaaS Providers

You may be familiar with the common phishing tactics like fake emails or text messages from a hacker pretending to be someone at your place of work, or maybe it’s someone pretending ...
DNS Security and SASE: Extending Security and Zero Trust to the New Network Perimeter

DNS Security and SASE: Extending Security and Zero Trust to the New Network Perimeter

DNS stands for Domain Name System, and acts as the “phone book of the internet”, turning IP addresses, such as 157.240.22.35 into Fully Qualified Domain Names (or FQDNs), such as Facebook.com ...
Protective DNS: hardening the Internet's phonebook by Byron Acohido

RSAC Fireside Chat: ‘Protective DNS’ directs smart audits, automated remediation to IP addresses

Domain Name Service. DNS. It’s the phone directory of the Internet. Related: DNS — the good, bad and ugly Without DNS the World Wide Web never would never have advanced as far ...

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 ...
Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS by Default in the United States

Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS by Default in the United States

Mozilla is turning on DNS over HTTPS by default for users in the United States and is making it available for users throughout the rest of the world if they choose it ...
GUEST ESSAY: Addressing DNS, domain names and Certificates to improve security postures

GUEST ESSAY: Addressing DNS, domain names and Certificates to improve security postures

In 2019, we’ve seen a surge in domain name service (DNS) hijacking attempts and have relayed warnings from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, U.K.’s Cybersecurity Centre, ICANN, and other notable security ...

Sea Turtle DNS Hijacking and More Weekly News | Avast

Sea Turtle hijacks the internet A hacker group that experts believe might be backed by a nation-state has been targeting big fish in the internet infrastructure world. Sea Turtle, as the group ...

ICANN calls for DNSSEC across unsecured domain names amidst increasing malicious activity in the DNS infrastructure

Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided to call for the full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across all unsecured domain names. ICANN ...
DHS Issues Emergency Directive on DNS Infrastructure Tampering

DHS Issues Emergency Directive on DNS Infrastructure Tampering

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued an emergency directive that requires federal agencies to mitigate the threat of Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure tampering. In “Emergency Directive 19-01,” DHS explains ...

US Department of Homeland security releases an ‘emergency directive’ to combat DNS tampering

Yesterday, the Department of Homeland security issued an emergency directive with the subject, “Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering” and ordering the federal agencies to comply with these in order to secure login credentials ...