Bill Woodcock

Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

| | anycast, Bill Woodcock, dns, John Todd, Latest Warnings, LINX, London Internet Exchange, MegaFon, Packet Clearing House, Quad9, Rostelecom, Russia's War on Ukraine, The Coming Storm
As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times ...
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The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

| | A Little Sunshine, Adconion Direct, AFRINIC, Afriq*Access, Bill Woodcock, Eddy Kayihura, Infoplan, ipv4leasing, ITC, Jan Vermeulen, Mybroadband.co.za, Packet Clearing House, Ron Guilmette, The African Network Information Centre, Web Fraud 2.0
A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated ...
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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

| | 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
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 ...
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