.onion officially registered as special-use domain name by the IETF
By publishing the RFC 7686 standard, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has formally recognized the .onion domain as a special-use domain name. “Over the last …
Attackers are downing DNS servers by exploiting BIND bug
As predicted, the critical and easily exploitable flaw that affects all versions of BIND, the most widely used DNS software on the Internet, has started being exploited by …
Misconfigured DNS servers may leak domain info, warns US-CERT
US-CERT is urging administrators of Domain Name System servers to check whether their machines are misconfigured to respond to global Asynchronous Transfer Full Range (AXFR) …
Mitigations for Spike DDoS toolkit-powered attacks
Akamai Technologies released, through the company’s Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert), a new cybersecurity threat advisory that alerts …
Legitimate No-IP users still affected by Microsoft’s domain takeover
When Microsoft seized control of 23 free domain names usually controlled by dynamic DNS service No-IP on Monday, it disrupted malware networks used by cybercriminals to infect …
Avira, AVG, WhatsApp sites defaced by Palestinian hacktivists
The websites of antivirus vendors Avira and AVG, as well as that of popular IM service WhatsApp, have been defaced by Palestinian hackers affiliated with Anonymous that go by …
NYT, Twitter, HuffPo sites disrupted by Syrian hacker group
Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army have managed to hijack, deface and / or make unavailable the websites of The New York Times, Huffington Post UK and one of Twitter …
Largest DDoS attack ever disrupts China’s Internet
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which maintains the registry for the .cn, China’s country code top-level domain, has notified the public that two …
DNS anomaly detection: Defend against sophisticated malware
Not so long ago, the standard way of looking for a malware infection was to simply monitor web traffic. By looking, for example, for HTTP requests to google.com/webhp – …
Academic institutions urged to improve network and DNS configurations
The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) has issued an alert to IT security staff, and network and DNS administrators urging …
Digitally signed ransomware lurking in the wild
Trend Micro researchers have spotted two ransomware variants bearing the same (probably stolen) digital signature in order to fool users into running the files. Other than …
Millions of GoDaddy sites go offline due to alleged DDoS attack
GoDaddy, on of the biggest and most popular Internet domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, has suffered an outage on Monday that left many of its …