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What Is DNS And Why Should Your Business Care?

Adam Levin

Department of Homeland Security issued an emergency directive in January 2019 giving government agencies ten days to verify that they weren’t compromised by DNS hijacking. Today, less than 20% of DNS traffic is secured by DNSSEC, and only three percent of Fortune 1,000 companies have implemented it.

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Flaw in PuTTY P-521 ECDSA signature generation leaks SSH private keys

LRQA Nettitude Labs

However, PuTTY’s implementation of DSA dates back to September 2001, around a month before Windows XP was released. via DNS spoofing) to redirect the user to a malicious SSH server would be able to capture signatures in order to exploit this vulnerability if the user ignores the SSH key fingerprint change warning.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

ProDiscover launched in 2001 to help public and private organizations solve digital crimes. Available as a free and open-source tool, Xplico’s primary objective is to extract application data from an internet traffic capture. UFED’s recovery methods include exclusive bootloaders, automatic EDL capability, and smart ADB.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. government websites in 1998 and is sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2001. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour.