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Curated Press on Domain and DNS Compromises To help our web audience better understand DNS related security exposures and compliance gaps this curated article page is dedicated to educating business leaders, IT and infrastructure teams. The more we understand the exposures, the better we can prevent them.
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.

Source: APNIC 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.

Source: Naked Security by Sophos 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.

Source: The Register 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.

Source: Anime News Network 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.

Source: The Register So who exactly was to blame for Marketo losing its dotcom?

Company points finger at registrar; registrar points right back

Marketing giant Marketo forgets to renew domain name. Hilarity ensues

Red faces all round at dotcom after emails, tracking links go TITSUP