US security researcher Zach Edwards recently tweeted about finding 250 company website names that had been taken over by cybercriminals. He didn’t name the brands, but insists that the organisations affected include banks, healthcare companies, restaurant chains, civil rights groups and more. The issue here is that the websites themselves haven’t been hacked, but their […]
There are significant shortfalls in enterprise domain security practices, putting organizations’ internet-facing digital assets at risk to threats, including domain name and DNS hijacking, phishing, and other fraudulent activity, a CSC report reveals. Security shortfalls According to the report, 83% of Global 2000 organizations have not adopted basic domain security measures such as registry lock, […]
Hackers who unleashed DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on a state-level voter registration and voter information website in the US used a technique called Pseudo Random Subdomain Attack (PRSD,) which is a form of attack that uses DNS queries for nonexistent and randomized subdomains, according to the FBI. “The FBI received reporting indicating […]
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