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Who’s Hacking You?

Webroot

DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. Once the criminal redirects internet traffic to malicious websites or takes control of servers, the damage is inevitable. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage. Cybersecurity Tips for Individuals and Businesses.

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E-mail header analysis

CyberSecurity Insiders

E-mail, also referred to as electronic mail, is an internet service which allows people and digital services to transmit messages(letters) in electronic form across Internet. SPF: also known as Sender Policy Framework, is a DNS record used for authentication mechanism in email addresses. What is an e-mail?

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Future Focused: Encryption and Visibility Can Co-Exist

Cisco Security

Hiding internet activity strengthens privacy—but also makes it easier for bad actors to infiltrate the network. In fact, 63% of threats detected by Cisco Stealthwatch in 2019 were in encrypted traffic. Keeping your destination private: DNS over HTTPS. Until recently, DNS messages were sent in the clear.

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alphaMountain has launched a new Cyber Threat analysis platform called “threatYeti”

CyberSecurity Insiders

Built on alphaMountain’s domain and IP threat intelligence APIs, threatYeti is a browser-based investigation tool that provides a fast, search-based interface to deliver real-time threat verdicts for any internet host.

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Strengthening Cyber Resilience: A Milestone Partnership

Security Boulevard

This proactive approach to threat detection and mitigation ensures that organizations can stay one step ahead of cyber adversaries, minimizing the impact of potential attacks and safeguarding their digital assets, and the correctness and completeness of the solution has been independently tested and validated by AV-TEST.

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Attack Surface Management for the Adoption of SaaS

CyberSecurity Insiders

DNS subdomain scanning is a useful tactic to discover internet-exposed SaaS application portals and their APIs. As an added bonus, subdomain scanning can help you shed light on what potentially sensitive information about customers, subsidiaries, and partners you may be exposing to the internet. Monitoring/Threat Detection.

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Threat Protection: The REvil Ransomware

Cisco Security

We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. In it we talked about how REvil/Sodinokibi compromised far more endpoints than Ryuk, but had far less DNS communication. Figure 1-DNS activity surrounding REvil/Sodinokibi.