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DHS issues emergency Directive to prevent DNS hijacking attacks

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DHS has issued a notice of a CISA emergency directive urging federal agencies of improving the security of government-managed domains (i.e.gov) to prevent DNS hijacking attacks. The notice was issued by the DHS and links the emergency directive Emergency Directive 19-01 titled “Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering.”.

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Alleged Iran-linked APT groups behind global DNS Hijacking campaign

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Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. The same IPs were previously associated with cyber attacks conducted by Iranian cyberspies. With these techniques, attackers are able to harvest usernames , passwords and domain credentials.

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Netanyahu accuses Iran of cyber attacks carried out daily

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Iran of launching cyber-attacks on its country with a daily basis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that Iran launched cyber-attacks on Israel on a daily basis, but its experts are able to block them. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Israel, Netanyahu).

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DDoS: How to Prevent Hackers from Overloading Your Web Server

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Web security has become one of the hottest topics of the past few years, with cyber attacks originating in many forms. In 2014 alone, we had the Snapchat hack, Heartbleed, Shellshock, SoakSoak and many other attacks (you can learn more about each of them here ).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 273

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Russia is going to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test

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Russia plans to disconnect the country from the internet as part of an experiment aimed at testing the response to cyber attacks that should isolate it. Currently, among the 12 organizations that oversee DNS base servers worldwide where isn’t an entity in Russia. According to Finanz.ru , local internet services Mail.ru

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RuNet – Russia successfully concluded tests on its Internet infrastructure

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The Russian authorities did not reveal the type of tests conducted on its infrastructure, it is only known that the experts also simulated a cyber attack from a foreign state-actor that forced the country from disconnecting from the Internet. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.