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The UK and Australian Governments Are Now Monitoring Their Gov Domains on Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

There's a verification process where control of the domain needs to be demonstrated (email to a WHOIS address, DNS entry or a file or meta tag on the site), after which all aliases on the domain and the breaches they've appeared in is returned. At the time of writing, over 110k domain searches have been performed and verified.

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5 Best Bot Protection Solutions and Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

The company also offers a range of additional cybersecurity solutions, including DDoS protection, web application firewalls, and DNS services. The solution should differentiate between bots and humans accurately and provide mechanisms for users to prove their identity and authenticity quickly.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second! Every time one of the kids asks Alexa a question, a TLS connection is established to Amazon's services and they get the benefit of confidentiality, integrity and authenticity.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

I've implemented CAA on HIBP and it's simply a matter of some DNS records and a check with a CAA validator : Unfortunately, there are no such records for Aadhaar: Now in fairness to Aadhaar, CAA is very new and the take-up is low ; we cannot be critical of them for not having implemented it yet. Again, see comments above re why this is odd.

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