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.
Company web names hijacked via outdated cloud DNS records →
US security researcher Zach Edwards recently tweeted about finding 250 company website names that had been taken over by cybercriminals.
Zoom Phishers Register 2000 Domains in a Month →
Over 2000 new phishing domains have been set up over the past month to capitalize on the surging demand for Zoom from home workers. Zoom could solve this if they owned their own Brand Top Level Domain .ZOOM
Companies Are Failing to Deploy Key Solution for Email Security →
Business Email Compromises (BEC) threats continue at a cost level of almost $10B per year. Time to set email security policies on all your domains with at least DMARC and SPF. Set it and monitor for compliance. Keep your company and customers safe.
Browsers to block access to HTTPS sites using TLS 1.0 and 1.1 starting this month →
More than 850,000 websites still use the old TLS 1.0 and 1.1 protocols, scheduled to be removed from most major browsers later this month.
Time to Stop Overlooking DNS Security →
The impact of cyber attacks on the Domain Name System (DNS) has been highlighted recently with news stories about a series of DNS hijacking attacks targeting governments and other organizations in Europe and the Middle East.
Microsoft has a subdomain hijacking problem →
Spammers hijack Microsoft subdomains to advertise poker casinos. Many other subdomains have been vulnerable for years.