In an effort to better protect the U.S. defense industrial base from malware-based threats, the National Security Agency has launched a pilot program on securing Domain Name System use for U.S. defense contractors. Read More
Digest Article
Topic: Domain Name System (DNS)
Digest Article
Bad News: ‘Unblockable’ Web Trackers Emerge. Good News: Firefox with uBlock Origin Can Stop It. Chrome, Not So Much
Ad-tech arms race continues: DNS system exploited to silently follow folks around the web. Read More
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CSIAC Webinars – OWASP Amass: Discovering Your Exposure on the Internet
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Amass project was originally created when the project lead was showing organizations what they look like on the Internet. During this process, he noticed that the tools available were returning incomplete results relative to what could be discovered manually. With the identification of this gap in Read More
CSIAC Webinar
OWASP Amass: Discovering Your Exposure on the Internet
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Amass project was originally created when the project lead was showing organizations what they look like on the Internet. During this process, he noticed that the tools available were returning incomplete results relative to what could be discovered manually. With the identification of this gap in Read More
Digest Article
A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks
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 Read More
Digest Article
Google Adds DNS-over-TLS Support to Its Public DNS Service
Google announced that their public Domain Name System (DNS) service now comes with support for the DNS-over-TLS security protocol which wraps DNS queries and answers using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. Read More
Digest Article
Another Day, Another Mass Domain Hijacking
More than 750 domain names were hijacked through the internet's own systems, registrar Gandi has admitted. Late last week, an unknown individual managed to get hold of the company's login to one of its technical providers, which then connects to no fewer than 27 other top-level domains, including .asia, .au, .ch, .jp and .se. Using that login, the Read More
