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New EfficientIP and IDC research sheds light on the frequency of the different types of DNS attack and the associated costs for the last year throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In the United Kingdom, the damages stemming from each attack saw a marked de… Continue reading The role DNS plays in network security
Akamai Edge DNS service delivers edge-based, authoritative domain services for thousands of organizations. These organizations trust Edge DNS to deliver reliable and performant responses, reflected by a 100% uptime service-level agreement. Along with u… Continue reading Edge DNS Secondary Implementation: Order of Operations for NS Zone and Registrar Records
Akamai Edge DNS service delivers edge-based, authoritative domain services for thousands of organizations. These organizations trust Edge DNS to deliver reliable and performant responses, reflected by a 100% uptime service-level agreement. Along with unmatched reliability, Edge DNS boasts an impressive geographically diverse footprint and an intelligently deployed anycast network, ensuring client queries are consistently routed to a nearby nameserver in an efficient manner. From an operations perspective, Akamai offers administrators the flexibility to leverage Edge DNS as either a secondary or primary provider, as well as the option of implementing DNSSEC to protect against DNS forgery and manipulation. Continue reading Edge DNS Secondary Implementation: Order of Operations for NS Zone and Registrar Records
I recently saw an unsolicited report done by a security(1) company A about the security posture of company B.
I got interested by one of the points in the report about analysis of malware activity from company B.
It was a table of the malw… Continue reading How can IPs connecting to a C&C become public knowledge? (the C&C is sinkholed) [closed]
Reading about open-redirection from web application hackers handbook came across a test case in which the server-side is validating user supplied data that the application uses to set target for redirection by following rules
URL provided… Continue reading How following URL’s will get open-redirection?
Given the scenario that:
Victim rents VM1 from a cloud provider, and points his/her DNS record to that VM1’s IP address
Victim deletes VM1 and switches to a different cloud provider, and creates VM2 there, but forgets to modify the DNS re… Continue reading Verifying that no malicious certificate has been issued while a DNS record was pointing to an uncontrolled IP
I have set prefferred DNS as 2.2.2.2, but it is showing malicious in threat Intel feeds, Is 2.2.2.2 Malicious, should I remove it from prefferred DNS .
Continue reading Is IP 2.2.2.2 public DNS Malicious [closed]
How can I check if a DNS Server (let’s say a DNS Server inside a private network) is vulnerable to zone transfer attacks when I only have its IP?
I do not have any domain names. I see all these tools like dig, dnsenum, fierce and so on usi… Continue reading How can I test if a DNS Server is vulnerable to zone transfers with its IP?
For most internet users, there’s not much of a perceivable difference between the domain name they want to visit and the server that the domain queries. That’s because the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol does a good job of seamlessly routing users to… Continue reading NAME:WRECK DNS Bugs: What You Need to Know
Let’s say hypothetically a business has a network and some respective infrastructure. Importantly, a VPN for giving remote secure access to work resources, and a (not so)private DNS server for DNS but also things like blocking malware doma… Continue reading Is unrestricted query access to dedicated DNS server considered an insecurity?