Essential Internet Infrastructure – DNS, BGP – Remains Vulnerable, Experts Warn
Let’s Encrypt started in November 2014 as an initiative created by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The idea behind it was to create a certificate authority that provides free SSL certificates using an automated process.
How good are you at telling the difference between domain names you know and trust and impostor or look-alike domains?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta, announced it suffered a security breach in a series of tweets posted online last night.