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How to Secure DNS

eSecurity Planet

The domain name system (DNS) is basically a directory of addresses for the internet. Your browser uses DNS to find the IP for a specific service. For example, when you enter esecurityplanet.com, the browser queries a DNS service to reach the matching servers, but it’s also used when you send an email. DNS spoofing or poisoning.

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Calling Home, Get Your Callbacks Through RBI

Security Boulevard

RBI solutions typically allow the configuration of file upload and download profiles, restricting the types of files that can be submitted or retrieved from websites based on multiple factors such as file extension, size, entropy/encryption of data, signatures, site reputation, and more. This can be due to encryption or even size.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. TLS and HTTPS inherently create secured and encrypted sessions for communication.

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How Cobalt Strike Became a Favorite Tool of Hackers

eSecurity Planet

Indeed, the tool can assess vulnerabilities and run penetration tests , while most tools on the market cannot do both. The Cobalt Strike’s Command and Control protocol is a DNS-based communication that is pretty hard to detect compared to classic HTTP traffic. It’s a comprehensive platform that emulates very realistic attacks.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

The certification covers active defense, defense in depth, access control, cryptography, defensible network architecture and network security, incident handling and response, vulnerability scanning and penetration testing, security policy, IT risk management, virtualization and cloud security , and Windows and Linux security.

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A roadmap for developing a secure enterprise cloud operating model

SC Magazine

Enable the capability to perform static and dynamic code scanning and penetration testing using a self-service approach, especially focusing on the vulnerabilities that can really be exploited at runtime. Data Security: Encrypt data in transit and at rest, S3 bucket data (at rest), and EBS root volume and dynamo db.

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OilRig APT group: the evolution of attack techniques over time

Security Affairs

T1094) mainly developed using DNS resolutions (which is actually one of the main characteristic of the attacker group). They begun development by introducing crafted communication protocol over DNS and later they added, to such a layer, encoding and encryption self build protocols.