Domains, DNS, and TLS Certificates
Security, Compliance and Performance. These are great sounding words and every IT executive worth their paycheck is all over them. So why do large, sophisticated companies keep experiencing catastrophic domain and DNS-related outages again and again? See how major brands like Sorenson Telecom, Equifax and even Microsoft suffered domain-downtime and loss of customer goodwill.
Top Security Firm Admits to MitM Security Incident →
Netherlands-based Fox-IT, one of the world’s leading IT security providers, disclosed today a security breach during which an unknown attacker carried out a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack and spied on a small number of Fox-IT customers.
Why DNSSEC deployment remains so low →
DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) were originally introduced in 1997 to address the security limitations of the original DNS protocol.
Dell forgot to renew the domain it uses for PC backups →
Once upon a time, there was a Dell domain called (deep breath…)
Man sentenced for hijacking company’s domain name and demanding $10,000 →
Man held former company’s name for ransom and redirected it to porn site.
DMARC anti-phishing standard adoption is lagging even in big firms →
Big-name companies are still leaving themselves and their customers open to phishing because they haven’t implemented the DMARC message validation standard.
What’s Going On with Anime News Network? →
Anime News Network suffered a pretty major hack, one that took down their original domain (www.animenewsnetwork.com) and compromised their email domain.