Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Interesting collision of real-world and Internet security: The ceremony sees several trusted internet engineers (a minimum of three and up to seven) from across the world descend on one of two secure locations -- one in El Segundo, California, just south of Los Angeles, and the other in Culpeper, Virginia -- both in America, every three months.

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Internet Internet Engineering DNS 279

Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

In one of many robust internet debates (as is prone to happen on Twitter), the discussion turned to the value proposition of HTTPS on a static website. I've done a heap of writing on this little device and regularly use it at conferences and training events. DNS Hijacking. Is it needed? Does it do any good?

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DNS Wireless Risk Banking 279

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2021

Forescout Research Labs last month released a 14-page white paper and a 47-page research report detailing 33 vulnerabilities affecting millions of Internet of Things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT), and IT devices. The four TCP/IP protocol layers are the link layer, internet layer , transport layer, and application layer.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 6, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a service that automatically updates the Domain Name System (DNS) in real-time to reflect changes in the IP addresses of a domain.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2025

This includes: Passive DNS Data : Historical records of DNS queries, enabling investigators to trace domains used in past attacks. Such information serves as the bedrock for tracing adversary origins and methods, and is not unlike the internet intelligence providers going back to the early days of companies like RiskIQ.

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

An endpoint DNS solution could have stopped the Trojanized Orion version by refusing to resolve the domain names of the command-and-control servers, again disrupting the infection to the point that no real damage could be done. But recent events have worked to undermine this growing understanding. The “next one” will look different.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In recent months, you’ve likely heard about DNS over HTTPS , also known as DNS 2.0 and DoH, which is a method that uses the HTTPS protocol to encrypt DNS requests, shielding their contents from malicious actors and others who might misuse such information. Ultimately, this DNS privacy upgrade has been a long time coming.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

A denial-of-service (DoS) event or attack can occur between a small number of devices such as a pair of servers. These events can occur accidentally and even within a corporate network; however, intentional attacks on internet-facing resources are far more common. Also read: How to Secure DNS. Preventing DDoS Attacks.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

Like other Black Hat conferences, the mission of the NOC is to build a conference network that is secure, stable and accessible for the training events, briefings, sponsors and attendees. Threat hunting is a core mission of the Cisco Secure team, while monitoring the DNS activity for potentially malicious activity. app.nihaocloud[.]com.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. According to our estimate, CoAP can reach up to 32 times (32x) amplification factor, which is roughly between the amplification power of DNS and SSDP.”.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

NormShield found that all of the 2020 presidential hopefuls, thus far, are making sure their campaigns are current on software patching, as well as Domain Name System (DNS) security; and several are doing much more. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cisco Secure supports the NOC operations with DNS visibility and architecture intelligence ( Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ) and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence ( Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX ). The other half is Clarity for iOS.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For effective DDoS defense, priority for patching and updates should be placed on devices between the most valuable resources and the internet such as firewalls, gateways , websites, and applications. Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or ping requests. For more information, see How to Prevent DNS Attacks. Anti-DDoS Tools.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

It is linked to a vulnerability in DNS resolvers that allows amplification attacks on authoritative DNS servers. Attacks on DNS servers are dangerous because all the resources they serve become unavailable, regardless of their size and level of DDoS protection. The bug was named TsuNAME.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

25+ Years of Black Hat (and some DNS stats), by Alejo Calaoagan. Cisco is a Premium Partner of the Black Hat NOC , and is the Official Wired & Wireless Network Equipment, Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider of Black Hat. Continued Integrations from past Black Hat events.

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DNS Wireless Malware Firewall 102

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Advanced AlienApp for Akamai ETP integrates with the Akamai ETP cloud-based secure web gateway, which focuses on secure internet connections. This issue is more important than ever as organizations deal with new security challenges in the wake of employees transitioning to remote work following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. Mirai takedown the Internet. Amazon) taken down were just massive collateral damage.

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IoT DDOS Internet Internet 107

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The problem: Microsoft patched 73 vulnerabilities in its most recent Patch Tuesday event, which occurs every month. Among the vulnerabilities is CVE-2024-21412 , an Internet Shortcut Files flaw that allows an unauthenticated attacker to send a malicious file to a user. It bypasses Internet Shortcut Files’ security measures.

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VPN DNS Ransomware Software 115

Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Think about how irresponsible you’d feel if that thing happened, and perhaps stress less about it if it would be considered a freak event. VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. That and the Ninja in your bedroom are not realistic scenarios. They’re Ninjas.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

The combination of Prolexic, Edge DNS, and App & API Protector would be recommended for the highest quality of DDoS mitigation to keep applications, data centers, and internet-facing infrastructure (public or private) protected. Protects websites, networks, DNS and individual IPs. Multiple Tier 1 internet network providers.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Tina Peters, the election clerk in Mesa County (Colorado) went rogue and dumped disk images of an election computer on the Internet. They are available on the Internet via BitTorrent [ Mesa1 ][ Mesa2 ], The Colorado Secretary of State is now suing her over the incident. This also acts as the network's DHCP and DNS server.

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Internet Internet Hacking Accountability 98

Malwarebytes

APRIL 29, 2022

A logger is a piece of software that logs every event that happens in a computer system. The CISA Log4j scanner is based on other open source tools and supports scanning lists of URLs, several fuzzing options, DNS callback, and payloads to circumvent web-application firewalls. Internet-facing instances. CVE-2021-40539.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

DDoS attacks are often executed using botnets – global networks of Internet-connected, malware-infected devices controlled by hackers. Engineers can also measure traffic patterns for a given application via the total number of DNS queries, DNS replies, HTTP requests received, or HTTP connections established on a per-hour basis.

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Errata Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Tina Peters, the election clerk in Mesa County (Colorado) went rogue and dumped disk images of an election computer on the Internet. They are available on the Internet via BitTorrent [ Mesa1 ][ Mesa2 ], The Colorado Secretary of State is now suing her over the incident. This also acts as the network's DHCP and DNS server.

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Internet Internet Hacking Accountability 95

Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition, it allows you to collect hourly events from Cisco Secure Endpoint through the USM Anywhere Job Scheduler. The Cisco Secure Endpoint App on ServiceNow provides users with the ability to integrate event data from the Cisco Secure Endpoint into ServiceNow by creating ITSM incidents. Read more here. Read more here. Sumo Logic.

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Firewall Authentication Passwords Threat Detection 144

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Founded in 2004, Cloudflare initially wanted to determine the source of email spam and became dedicated to building a better, more secure internet. The lowest tier of Cloudflare One provides support for 50 users maximum, 24 hours of activity logging, and up to three network locations for office-based DNS filtering. Who Is Cloudflare?

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DNS DDOS IoT Firewall 98

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Internet as we know it operates within the service-oriented paradigm, which heavily favors providers over users. This makes Wildland something akin to a file-based Internet that you can browse and manage using Finder, Thunar, Konqueror or any other file browser of your choice. Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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Google Security

MAY 25, 2023

Sites already using ACME can configure multiple ACME providers to increase resilience during CA outages or mass renewal events. Their technical expertise guarantees they'll be able to scale to meet the needs of an increasingly encrypted Internet," says Matthew Prince, CEO, Cloudflare.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

That attack was 140 percent larger than a 1 Tbps attack in 2020 and larger than any similar event ever detected on the Azure public cloud, they said. Azure officials in October reported that they were able to mitigate a 2.4 terabit-per-second DDoS attack against a European cloud customer that originated in the Asia-Pacific region.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The PlugX families we observed used DNS [ T1071.001 ] [ T1071.004 ] as the transport channel for C2 traffic, in particular TXT queries. Another clue that helped us was the use of DNS tunneling by Winnti which we discovered traces of in memory. The hardcoded 208.67.222.222 resolves to a legitimate OpenDNS DNS server.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Onyphe ), passive DNS databases, public sandbox reports, etc. Those operations, tools or systems include, but are not limited to, honeypots [3] , sinkholing [4] , internet scanning and some specific behavioral detection methods from endpoint and network detection products. VirusTotal ), network system search engines (e.g.,

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself. All of these can be extinction-level events. A Prime Target for Hackers. “They had all of our traffic and we were losing thousands of dollars daily in revenue.”

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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IoT Firmware Risk Manufacturing 362

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Secure web gateway (SWG) solutions help keep enterprise networks from falling victim to ransomware , malware , and other threats carried by internet traffic and malicious websites. Secure web gateways, then, provide fast, secure access to the Internet and SaaS, making digital business a safe and productive experience.

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Engineering Digital transformation Internet Internet 104

SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

million, financial services firms are laser-focused on cloud vulnerabilities, attacks against internet-of-things devices and other prevalent threats. . Local, national and international laws govern not only how firms protect data, but also the fines they may incur in the event of a breach. and potential cost — to security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since the inception of data forensics almost forty years ago, methods for investigating security events have given way to a market of vendors and tools offering digital forensics software (DFS). Available as a free and open-source tool, Xplico’s primary objective is to extract application data from an internet traffic capture.

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