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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

” The DNS part of that moniker refers to the global “ D omain N ame S ystem ,” which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. PASSIVE DNS.

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Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others

Krebs on Security

PT Monday evening, Escrow.com’s website looked radically different: Its homepage was replaced with a crude message in plain text: The profanity-laced message left behind by whoever briefly hijacked the DNS records for escrow.com. Running a reverse DNS lookup on this 111.90.149[.]49 Image: Escrow.com.

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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

Krebs on Security

13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. That alert was triggered by systems E-HAWK had previously built in-house that continually monitor their stable of domains for any DNS changes. Dijkxhoorn said his company first learned of the domain theft on Jan.

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A 3-Tiered Approach to Securing Your Home Network

Daniel Miessler

Most home networks get broken into through either phishing or some random device they have with a bad password. It’s usually a password that was never configured or never changed from the default. Use a password manager to make and store good passwords that are different for every account/device. or 1.1.1.3

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Best Internet Security Suites & Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Antivirus Software WiFi 6 Routers Virtual Private Networks Password Managers Email Security Software Web Application Firewall Bot Management Software. DNS leak protection Kill switch No log policy. Password Managers. Most password managers allow users to fill in their credentials with the click of a button.

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Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter

Troy Hunt

Tech will only go so far, but Safe Browsing and known-bad RPZ into consumer DNS as well (probably) — Joel Samuel (@JoelGSamuel) October 26, 2020 I'm sure it'd be very nice to have this team, but what are they actually going to build? It won't match the faked domain, hence no password gets entered. Is it a button?

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IPVanish vs NordVPN: Compare Features and Price

eSecurity Planet

While it doesnt have quite as many extras as NordVPN, some highlights include its reasonable pricing and features like DNS leak protection and ad blocking. It offers basic VPN functionality along with advanced features like data breach scanning and password manager integrations. 5 Features: 3.6/5 5 Customer support: 3.9/5

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