Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

Top of the heap this month in terms of outright scariness is CVE-2020-1350 , which concerns a remotely exploitable bug in more or less all versions of Windows Server that attackers could use to install malicious software simply by sending a specially crafted DNS request.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. DNS encryption.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

For even more tips from Webroot IT security experts Tyler Moffitt, Kelvin Murray, Grayson Milbourne, George Anderson and Jonathan Barnett, download the complete e-book on hacker personas. DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

The Domain Name System (DNS) is often referred to as the phone book of the internet. DNS translates web addresses, which people use, into IP addresses, which machines use. But DNS was not designed with security in mind. This has only worsened with the adoption of encrypted DNS, known as DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

A lot of people are thinking about the security of their home network right now, and as one of the project leaders on the OWASP Internet of Things Security Project , I wanted to provide three levels of security you can do at home. Do you have internet-connected lights, appliances, gaming systems, media systems, etc? or 1.1.1.3

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

As indoor spaces begin to open in the next few months, employees will want to venture out to new spaces to work, such as coffee shops and internet cafes – but working on open networks and personal devices creates unlocked gateways for cyberattacks to take place. DNS is frequently targeted by. DNS is frequently targeted by.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

DNS Spoofing DNS (Domain Name System) is like the internet’s phone book, translating domain names into IP addresses. Hackers can manipulate DNS settings to redirect your internet traffic to malicious websites, even if you entered the correct web address.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2024

There’s no shortage of researchable financial cybercrime on the internet. Passive DNS: The Context of IP Addresses When threat actors target financial institutions using ransomware, they deploy it via multiple IP addresses. This process of translation is known as resolution: DNS resolves to IPs. Download the use cases 1.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Flight booking platform Option Way exposes customer and internal data. Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests. Cisco addresses CVE-2019-12643 critical flaw in virtual Service Container for IOS XE. Malspam campaign bypasses secure email gateway using Google Docs. JSWorm: The 4th Version of the Infamous Ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 23, 2023

Dangling domains are DNS records that point to a domain or subdomain that no longer exists or is not configured properly. It occurs when a domain or subdomain has been deleted, but the DNS record that resolves the domain or subdomain still exists in the DNS server.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2021

The Domain Name System ( DNS ) translates domain names used by people, like blog.malwarebytes.com into the IP addresses used by computers, like 130.211.198.3. The DNS system is often compared to a phone book where you can look up a person’s name to find their phone number. For that we can use either 0.0.0.0 IPv4 octets.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. Right now, users’ interests are secondary to the service providers’.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN. This is true.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Hackers defaced Linux.org with DNS hijack. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you!

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SecureList

JANUARY 28, 2021

From the rise of remote working and the global shift in consumer habits to huge profits booked by internet entertainers, we are witnessing how overwhelmingly important the connected infrastructure has become for the daily functioning of society. What does all this mean for privacy?

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Errata Security

AUGUST 31, 2019

People assume I mean "parsing programming languages", like in the Dragon book. Parsing DNS is a good example. In a DNS packet, a name appears many times. This is known as "DNS name compression". Yet, this DNS compression feature is a common source of parser errors. The Internet is written in C.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

ASM involves several activities, including: Asset Discovery ASM tools identify the organization’s internet-facing assets. Falcon Surface also provides full visibility into internet risks affecting businesses and prioritizes threats based on expert insights and business needs.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services. This specific document described how to access the internet facing company portal and the web-based VPN client into the company network.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. Raymond, from his 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. And it's a doozy program.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. Raymond, from his 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. And it's a doozy program.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. The registration records for the website Cryptor[.]biz

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

But a look at the Internet address historically tied to this domain (186.2.171.79) shows the same address is used to host or park hundreds of other newly-minted crypto scam domains , including coinbase-x2[.]net A dig into the Domain Name Server (DNS) records for Coinbase-x2[.]net ” Ark-x2[.]org org is no longer online.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

No, I simply bought Shon Harris’s massive book CISSP- All-in-One Exam Guide -- and read through it -- not one, twice. So most of our apps are mostly upside tests over the internet. And if you start reading through those and you start doing CTFs, and you start doing bug bounties, I think that is experience in my book.

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