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Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks

Google Security

Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate human-readable domain names (e.g., When a user enters a domain name in their browser, the DNS resolver (e.g. Google Public DNS). www.example.com) into numeric IP addresses (e.g.,

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Episode 233: Unpacking Log4Shell’s Un-coordinated Disclosure Chaos

The Security Ledger

Back in 2008, the late, great security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a serious security flaw in a ubiquitous Internet technology: the domain name system, or DNS. Just point your web browser to securityledger.com/subscribe to get notified whenever a new podcast is posted. [ Mark Stanislav is a VP of Information Security at Gemini.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2021 Edition

Krebs on Security

A key concern for enterprises is another critical bug in the DNS server on Windows Server 2008 through 2019 versions that could be used to remotely install software of the attacker’s choice. CVE-2021-24078 earned a CVSS Score of 9.8, which is about as dangerous as they come.

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Patch now! PrintNightmare over, MSHTML fixed, a new horror appears … OMIGOD

Malwarebytes

DNS elevation of privilege vulnerability. This vulnerability was listed as CVE-2021-36968 and affects systems running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, SP2 and Windows 7 SP1. It exists due to an application that does not properly impose security restrictions in Windows DNS.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.” I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. Here’s snippet of Icamis’s ad on Spamdot from Aug. ” We are glad to present you our services!

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

In particular, the system.img file serves as the authentic payload archive used for initial Windows system infections. Supported Windows versions include Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows 10 up to build 14392. This may be a bug; the authors probably meant 169.254.0.0/16

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Its capabilities include smart brute-forcing by analyzing the initial request for authentication data it receives from a Telnet service.

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