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Timeshare Owner? The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You

Krebs on Security

It is unclear whether the Dimitruks were robbed by people working for the Jalisco cartel, but it is clear that whoever is responsible for managing many of the above-mentioned domains — including the DNS provider datasur[.]host Constella found that someone using the email address exposed in the DNS records for datasur[.]host

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CISA, SolarWinds up interest in security scoring

SC Magazine

So similarly, for us, if you’re finding low network security, if you’re finding poor DNS help, if you’re finding issues with employee workstation, remote workstations, malware and so forth, the internal security is not likely to be as interesting. But the chances of that are quite low.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. Oh, one of the things so we developed a time travel debugger.