Cloudflare Launches Publicly DNS-Over-HTTPS Service

Clouldflare launches DNS-over-HTTPS service called 1.1.1.1 that it says will be a “privacy-first” DNS service for consumers. Continue reading Cloudflare Launches Publicly DNS-Over-HTTPS Service

News in brief: Pratchett’s data steamrollered; WikiLeaks hit by hackers; Instagram details for sale

Your daily round-up of some the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: Pratchett’s data steamrollered; WikiLeaks hit by hackers; Instagram details for sale

Oops! WikiLeaks Website Defaced By OurMine

OurMine is in headlines once again—this time for defacing WikiLeaks website.

The notorious hacking group, OurMine, is known for breaching into high-profile figures and companies’ social media accounts, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, HBO, Game of Thrones and Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN).
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The .io Error – Taking Control of All .io Domains With a Targeted Registration

In a previous post we talked about taking over the .na, .co.ao, and .it.ao domain extensions with varying levels of DNS trickery. In that writeup we examined the threat model of compromising a top level domain (TLD) and what some avenues would look like for an attacker to accomplish this goal. One of the fairly… Read More Continue reading The .io Error – Taking Control of All .io Domains With a Targeted Registration

Oops! TP-Link forgets to Renew and Loses its Domains Used to Configure Router Settings

To make the configuration of routers easier, hardware vendors instruct users to browse to a domain name rather than numeric IP addresses.

Networking equipment vendor TP-LINK uses either tplinklogin.net or tplinkextender.net for its routers configurati… Continue reading Oops! TP-Link forgets to Renew and Loses its Domains Used to Configure Router Settings