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.
Look-Alike Domains and Visual Confusion →
How good are you at telling the difference between domain names you know and trust and impostor or look-alike domains?
Hackers are flooding the internet with more fake domain names. →
A new report released Wednesday shows the use of fake internet domain names to trick consumers into giving up personal information is more widespread than experts originally thought.
Trustico website goes dark after someone drops critical flaw on Twitter →
Transport Layer Security is an excellent security protocol, however, the integrity requires the chain of trust to be unbroken. Unfortunately, people cause a problem when they mishandle private keys. Read about 23,000 certificates that had to be revoked because the chain of trust was compromised.
Domain Theft Strands Thousands of Web Sites →
Newtek Business Services Corp. [NASDAQ:NEWT], a Web services conglomerate that operates more than 100,000 business Web sites and some 40,000 managed technology accounts, had several of its core domain names stolen over the weekend. The theft shut off email and stranded Web sites for many of Newtek’s customers.
Hackers Hijack DNS Server of BlackWallet to Steal $400,000 →
Unknown hackers (or hacker) have hijacked the DNS server for BlackWallet.co, a web-based wallet application for the Stellar Lumen cryptocurrency (XLM), and has stolen over $400,000 from users’ accounts.
Hackers Hijack DNS Server of Crypto-to-Crypto Exchange EtherDelta →
Cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta, announced it suffered a security breach in a series of tweets posted online last night.