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Why Would Someone Hack My Website?

SiteLock

An SSL Certificate is used to establish a secure encrypted connection between a web browser and a web server. Julia’s eCommerce Site Goes Down In Style. A WAF can provide web application protection, infrastructure protection and DNS protection—all vital components for protecting against DDoS attacks.

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Domain Control Validation (DCV) Methods & How to Choose

Security Boulevard

Ensure data confidentiality and integrity with robust encryption algorithms to protect information transmitted between browsers and website servers. Then, the CA's validation system checks the DNS records to verify domain control. DNS Meanwhile, Wildcard certificates typically use DNS-based validation. Domain configuration.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Somebody's trying to say encrypt the whole database or exfiltrate the whole database.

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NullMixer: oodles of Trojans in a single dropper

SecureList

Configuration is stored in several registry keys in encrypted and base64 encoded form. LgoogLoader is a Trojan-Downloader that downloads an encrypted configuration file from a hardcoded static URL. It uses a single-byte XOR encryption key to receive URLs from the control center. Satacom DNS request and response.

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