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Please build securely – before robots kill us
- May 26, 2017
- By Theresa DeGroote
- In Cybersecurity
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Over the past couple of weeks, the world has been given WannaCry, which moved like wildfire through the globe and has given rise to multiple theories of origination from North Korea and not North Korea, and was dubbed “a pretty shoddy piece of work”. As of this writing no one…
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The Front Door is well protected against DNS DDoS attacks, but what about the back?
- Mar 02, 2017
- By Theresa DeGroote
- In DDoS
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The DNS is the phone book of the internet, and most IP services are entirely dependent on its stability and performance. With the recent rash of DNS DDoS attacks, it has become clear that the DNS needs a special security status. DNS essentially remains a single point of attack, even…
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Dyn, BIND and DNS Strategy
- Jan 13, 2017
- By Theresa DeGroote
- In DNS
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by SECURE64 on NOVEMBER 4, 2016 · · On October 21, 2016, leading websites including Twitter, Netflix and Spotify were severely interrupted by an attack on DNS hosting provider Dyn. Many service providers experienced degradation in their DNS services because attempts to access popular web sites resulted in a SERVfail…
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Blocking Attacks from the Incredibly Insecure Internet of Things (IIIoT)
- Jan 13, 2017
- By Theresa DeGroote
- In DDoS, DNS
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by THERESA DEGROOTE on OCTOBER 26, 2016 In the wake of the massive attack against DNS provider Dyn, we as a security industry need to ask ourselves “what the hell are we going to do about the usage of dumb, secure-less IOT devices to become a bot army?” In the…
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DNS Hosting – the problem with centralization
- Jan 13, 2017
- By Theresa DeGroote
- In DDoS, DNS
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Recently, Robert Reich argued that the centralization of DNS on the “platforms of giants” has led to the vulnerability of the internet, as witnessed by the massive assault on DNS provider Dyn. Last Friday’s attack led to problems accessing popular sites, including Twitter, Reddit, PayPal, and Netflix, and has left…
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Performing a signing algorithm rollover is not for the faint of heart
- Jul 22, 2016
- By Andrew
- In DNS, DNSSEC
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We are proud of our DNSSEC heritage here at Secure64. We launched the first fully automated DNSSEC signing appliance in 2008, just weeks after security researcher Dan Kaminsky made public the flaws in the DNS protocol that DNSSEC addresses. Our goal from the very beginning was to make deploying DNSSEC…
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Blocking Bad Internet Content – do it at the DNS
- Jun 20, 2016
- By Andrew
- In DNS
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On June 9th, Ethiopia became the latest nation state to move to legislate on Internet content. I, for one, am sold on the idea of blocking bad internet content, especially illegal content. Give organisations, institutions and parents control over what internet content comes through their networks. It is empowering. It…
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Infosecurity – one size fits all. Really?
- Jun 10, 2016
- By Andrew
- In Telecom
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InfoSecurity Europe, London, closed its doors yesterday, with an estimated 20,000 attendees coming through the doors over the last 3 days (up from 15,000 last year). The investment in exhibition equipment, marketing-freebies and volume of new attendees is really impressive. Investment money is really flowing. But surprising to me, 9…
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Certainties in life – death, taxes and email scams…
- Jun 07, 2016
- By Andrew
- In Phishing & Spear Phishing
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Email scams appear to be inevitable – with phishing and spear phishing causing incredible pain to individuals and organizations.
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New Year, New BIND Security Vulnerabilities.
- Jan 22, 2016
- By Andrew
- In DNS
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We are barely into the new year, and BIND users have more patching to do. Today, the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) announced the availability of patches to fix two critical BIND security vulnerabilities: • CVE-2015-8704 • CVE-2015-8705 Both of these vulnerabilities
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