Tag: DNSSEC
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A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.
For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out of sync with its 12 root server …
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Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws
Two DNSSEC vulnerabilities were disclosed last month with similar descriptions and the same severity score, but they are not the same …
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Microsoft Rolls Out Patches for 73 Flaws, Including 2 Windows Zero-Days
Microsoft has released patches to address 73 security flaws spanning its software lineup as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for February …
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Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC
A single packet can exhaust the processing capacity of a vulnerable DNS server, effectively disabling the machine, by exploiting a …
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Just one bad DNS packet can bring down a public DNSSEC server
A 20-plus-year-old security vulnerability in the design of DNSSEC could allow a single DNS packet to exhaust the processing capacity of any …
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Verisign Will Help Strengthen Security With DNSSEC Algorithm Update
As part of Verisign’s ongoing effort to make global internet infrastructure more secure, stable, and resilient, we will soon make an …
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Attackers target the Domain Name System, the internet’s phone book. Here’s how to fight back
The foundational Domain Name System, essentially the phone book for the internet, used to be something nobody using the net much noticed, …
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Presentation: Slack’s DNSSEC Rollout: Third Time’s the Outage
Transcript Tellez: In this presentation, we are going to talk about Slack’s DNSSEC rollout and a very interesting outage that we had on …
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Protecting IoT devices requires a DNS-based solution
IoT devices are fast becoming an everyday part of our lives. Whether it be in the role they play in manufacturing and industry or powering …
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Dnsmasq vulnerabilities open networking devices, Linux distros to DNS cache poisoning
Seven vulnerabilities affecting Dnsmasq, a caching DNS and DHCP server used in a variety of networking devices and Linux distributions, …
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How prevalent is DNS spoofing? Could a repeat of the Dyn/Mirai DDoS attack have the same results?
Two separate groups of academics have recently released research papers based on research into the Domain Name System (DNS). One has found …
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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 …
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