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Microsoft Buys Corp.com

Schneier on Security

A core part of the way these things find each other involves a Windows feature called " DNS name devolution ," which is a kind of network shorthand that makes it easier to find other computers or servers without having to specify a full, legitimate domain name for those resources.

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Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t

Krebs on Security

A core part of the way these things find each other involves a Windows feature called “ DNS name devolution ,” which is a kind of network shorthand that makes it easier to find other computers or servers without having to specify a full, legitimate domain name for those resources.

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Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices

Malwarebytes

Use a DNS filter to stop web-based attacks. That’s where DNS filtering comes in. The source of all of these kinds of attacks is through the web, and DNS filtering can help with that by blocking some of those sites,” Reed says. Learn more about the ways DNS filtering can save your business from cyberattacks.

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Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks

Google Security

Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate human-readable domain names (e.g., When a user enters a domain name in their browser, the DNS resolver (e.g. Google Public DNS). www.example.com) into numeric IP addresses (e.g.,

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

government said Grichishkin and three others set up the infrastructure used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. ” Likewise, the bulletproof domain service icamis[.]ws

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Operation Lyrebird: Group-IB assists INTERPOL in identifying suspect behind numerous cybercrimes worldwide

Security Affairs

According to Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team, the suspect, dubbed Dr HeX by Group-IB based on one of the nicknames that he used, has been active since at least 2009 and is responsible for a number of cybercrimes, including phishing, defacing, malware development, fraud, and carding that resulted in thousands of unsuspecting victims.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. A federal grand jury indicts Albert Gonzalez and two Russian accomplices in 2009. He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison. billion dollars in damages. Most users are unaffected.