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DNS-over-HTTPS takes another small step towards global domination

Malwarebytes

Firefox recently announced that it will be rolling out DNS-over-HTTPS (or DoH) soon to one percent of its Canadian users as part of its partnership with CIRA (the Canadian Internet Registration Authority), the Ontario-based organization responsible for managing the.ca The DNS resolver the request is sent to also sees the DNS request, too.

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

” The DNS part of that moniker refers to the global “ D omain N ame S ystem ,” which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. PASSIVE DNS. That changed on Jan.

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Everyday Threat Modeling

Daniel Miessler

Example 2: Using a VPN. A lot of people are confused about VPNs. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN. VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. This is true. So, probably not a win.

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Abusing cloud services to fly under the radar

Fox IT

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. This specific document described how to access the internet facing company portal and the web-based VPN client into the company network.

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Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) environments.

CyberSecurity Insiders

This is the first of a series of consultant-written blogs around PCI DSS. GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., Many organizations have multiple IAM schemes that they forget about when it comes to a robust compliance framework such as PCI DSS. PCI DSS v4.0

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Future Focused: A Safer Way to Expose Private Server Names

Cisco Security

Shrink the DNS attack surface with Auth-DoH. In this analogy, the invisibility superpower is DNS over HTTPS (DoH). It’s a new protocol that encrypts the DNS request to keep bad actors from discovering or altering domain names or snooping on users’ internet destinations. My inspiration: Loki , the Marvel superhero.)

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Remotely Accessing Secure Kali Pi

Kali Linux

In Secure Kali Pi (2022) , the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. If you are only interested in using the Raspberry Pi as a Wi-Fi client, you can stop here, and unmount everything like we did in our secure Kali Pi blog post. hcd usr/lib/firmware/brcm/BCM-0bb4-0306.hcd