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DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS explained: Encrypting DNS traffic

CSO Magazine

Being the backbone of the internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol has undergone a series of improvements and enhancements over the past few years. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Schneier on Security

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes.

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GUEST ESSAY: Where we stand on mitigating software risks associated with fly-by-wire jetliners

The Last Watchdog

Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. Software gaps Similarly, the availability of onboard Wi-Fi services has become increasingly common in commercial aircraft so passengers can stay connected to the internet even during a long flight.

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SHARED INTEL: Ramifications of 86 cities storing citizens’ data in misconfigured AWS S3 buckets

The Last Watchdog

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted. LW: How long were these S3 buckets likely to have been sitting on the Internet, accessible to anyone with the keyboard skills to find and copy the data? based PeopleGIS. Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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OnionPoison: infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel

SecureList

In our case, a link to a malicious Tor installer was posted on a popular Chinese-language YouTube channel devoted to anonymity on the internet. Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 In response to the POST request, the C2 server returns a blob containing an encrypted second stage payload. Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10

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Router security in 2021

SecureList

A router is a gateway from the internet to a home or office — despite being conceived quite the opposite. Number of router vulnerabilities according to cve.mitre.org, 2010–2022 ( download ). Number of router vulnerabilities according to nvd.nist.gov, 2010–2022 ( download ). Use proper encryption. Disable remote access.

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STEPS FORWARD: How the Middle East led the U.S. to adopt smarter mobile security rules

The Last Watchdog

One consensus tenant that emerged from this whirlwind of rule-making in the ME and EU was the requirement to “containerize” business data, that is keep data encrypted at all times, including when accessed by and stored on mobile devices. BYOD threw a monkey wrench into IT operations starting in 2010 or so. It’s coming. I’ll keep watch.

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