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What Is DNS Security? Everything You Need to Know

eSecurity Planet

DNS security protects the domain name system (DNS) from attackers seeking to reroute traffic to malicious sites. Since a majority of business IT traffic now accesses or passes through the internet, DNS plays an increasingly important — and vulnerable — role.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

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50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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Vulnerability Recap 10/01/24 – NVIDIA, Ivanti & Newcomer Kia See Issues

eSecurity Planet

On a LAN, the threat actor would use spoofed zeroconf / mDNS / DNS-SD ads. The vulnerability stems from inadequate validation of network data, allowing attackers to get the vulnerable system to install a malicious printer driver, and then send a print job to that driver triggering execution of the malicious code,” said security firm Ontinue.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

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Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). Domain name system (DNS) security: Protects the DNS service from attempts to corrupt DNS information used to access websites or to intercept DNS requests.

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What is SASE? Secure Access Service Service Edge Explained

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Get the Free Cybersecurity Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping up to date on the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices. Overcoming Edge Computing Risks This article was originally written by Paul Shread on November 24, 2020 and revised by Chad Kime on August 11, 2023.

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Comparing Top VPN Solutions: SurfShark vs ExpressVPN

eSecurity Planet

month Free Trial 7 days 30 days Supported Operating Systems Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS Mobile Versions of VPN Yes Yes Encryption Used AES-256 AES-256 Camouflage Mode Yes No Visit SurfShark Visit ExpressVPN SurfShark and ExpressVPN scored well in my overall pricing and privacy posture analysis.

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APT trends report Q1 2021

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On February 24, the National Security Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) publicly warned that a threat actor had exploited a national documents circulation system (SEI EB) to distribute malicious documents to Ukrainian public authorities. Domestic Kitten is a threat group mainly known for its mobile backdoors.

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