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What is a Website Vulnerability and How Can it be Exploited?

SiteLock

Cybercriminals create specialized tools that scour the internet for certain platforms, like WordPress or Joomla, looking for common and publicized vulnerabilities. These types of attacks are particularly vexing for ecommerce and banking sites where attackers can gain access to sensitive financial information.

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Domain Control Validation (DCV) Methods & How to Choose

Security Boulevard

The process helps: Prevent fraudulent certificate issuance by ensuring CAs only issue digital certificates to legitimate domain owners, establishing trust and security on the internet. Then, the CA's validation system checks the DNS records to verify domain control. DNS DV certificates may use email-, DNS-, or HTTP-based validation.

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Best Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Tools

eSecurity Planet

The combination of Prolexic, Edge DNS, and App & API Protector would be recommended for the highest quality of DDoS mitigation to keep applications, data centers, and internet-facing infrastructure (public or private) protected. Protects websites, networks, DNS and individual IPs. Multiple Tier 1 internet network providers.

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How to Mitigate DDoS Attacks with Log Analytics

CyberSecurity Insiders

DDoS attacks are often executed using botnets – global networks of Internet-connected, malware-infected devices controlled by hackers. Loss of revenue – Unplanned service downtime often results in loss of revenue, especially for organizations who monetize through eCommerce or digital advertisement.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. And it's a doozy program. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. And it's a doozy program. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed.

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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. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet.