Overlooked Domain Name Resiliency Issues: Registrar Communications, (Fri, Jul 5th)

I often think the Internet would work better without DNS. People unable to remember an IP address would be unable to use it. But on the other hand, there is more to DNS than translating a human-readable hostname to a “machine-readable” IP address. DNS does allow us to use consistent labels even as the IP address changes.

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Support of SSL 2.0 on web servers in 2024, (Fri, Jun 28th)

We last discussed SSLv2 support on internet-exposed web servers about a year ago, when we discovered that there were still about 450 thousand web servers that supported this protocol left on the internet[1]. We also found that a significant portion of these servers was located in Kazakhstan, Tunisia and in the U.S.[2]

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Configuration Scanners Adding Java Specific Configuration Files, (Mon, Jun 24th)

Hunting for configuration files is one of the favorite tricks we typically see used against our honeypots. Traditionally, standard and more generic configuration files like “.env” or “.config” are the target, with some cloud-specific configuration files sprinkled in.

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