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.
Four years after the Dyn DDoS attack, critical DNS dependencies have only gone up →
If Cloudflare, AWS, or GoDaddy go down, around 40% of the Alexa Top 100,000 websites will also go down with DNS resolution problems.
GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services →
Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week.
GoDaddy (all of it) went down this evening →
GoDaddy had technical difficulties Tuesday evening that took down its entire network, including websites hosted on GoDaddy.
DNS Cache Poisoning, 2008’s Internet Attack, Returns →
In 2008, researcher Dan Kaminsky revealed one of the more severe Internet security threats ever: a weakness in the domain name system that made it possible for attackers to send users en masse to imposter sites instead of the real ones belonging to Google, Bank of America, or anyone else.
DNS security best practices: Preventing DNS hijacking, poisoning and redirection →
The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the fundamental protocols of the Internet. It provides a lookup service that converts domain names (like google.com) into IP addresses (like 192.168.0.0).
The State of DNS Abuse: Moving Backward, Not Forward →
ICANN’s founding promise and mandate are optimistic — ensure a stable and secure internet that benefits the internet community as a whole.