Heimadal Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sea Turtle Turkish state-backed group changed to focus on internet service providers (ISPs), telcos, media, and Kurdish websites. DNS hijacking and traffic redirection that leads to man-in-the-middle attacks are among their cyber espionage techniques.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last month, a large Canadian telecommunications provider suffered a catastrophic outage for more than 18 hours. Many Canadians found themselves disconnected when cellular networks and the internet failed to respond—at home or at work. The post Why You Need a Secondary DNS appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2019

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2023

StormWall , a premier cybersecurity firm specializing in the defense of websites, networks, and online services from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, has published an in-depth report on the DDoS landscape during the first quarter of 2023. targeting the DNS, and the remaining 3.7% aimed at other objectives.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

These events can occur accidentally and even within a corporate network; however, intentional attacks on internet-facing resources are far more common. Also read: How to Secure DNS. DNS Flood: The attacking machines send spoofed DNS requests at a high packet rate to overwhelm the DNS server and shut down the domain.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Cybersecurity can be difficult to implement, and to make matters worse, the security professionals needed to do it right are in short supply. Organizations typically decide to outsource cybersecurity for a number of reasons: IT talent shortages make it difficult to hire and retain experienced cybersecurity professionals.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

As social engineering tactics become more advanced, it’s important to know how to identify them in the context of cybersecurity. Social engineering in cybersecurity attacks. Vishing attacks are also similar to phishing and smishing, but these attacks target VoIP and telecommunications services rather than text-based mediums.

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