DNSDNS Security2018: The Year That Saw DNS Hacks Bring the Internet to its Knees2018 has turned out to be the year of the breach. No sooner than we got over November’s LastPass outage, the first week alone in December revealed Marriott and Quora had been hacked, exposing 600 million internet users.Worryingly, the huge organizations who were victims of these attacks and exposed their customers’ passport, CVV and credit cards details may actually be hiding even more than they have revealed so far. Some have compromised not just their customers’ details, but their DNS:...
DNSDNS SecurityWeb Proxy: Understanding Why It Is Not EnoughWeb proxies are designed as intermediary layers between clients and applications, to accelerate surfing as well as securing communications and data. While this layer focuses on all aspects of HTTP(s), it still relies on DNS service in order to retrieve resources within a web page. Indeed, the host part of a URL is a plain name meant to be resolved to an IP address. The proxy then connects to this IP address to fetch the desired object. On the other...
DNSDNS SecurityGDPRProtect your DNS, protect your dataFor the past four years, the DNS Global Threat Report created from Coleman Parkes survey data explored the technical causes and behavioral responses of Domain Name System (DNS) threats and their potential effects on businesses globally. This year, our report found an increase in the number and cost of DNS-based attacks on businesses globally, as well as a failure from organizations to adapt security solutions to protect against these new, network-based attacks that aim to exploit DNS security. While the...
DNS SecurityGDPRWhy GDPR Day is February 15th, not May 25th 2018If you read the news, you may think the negative portrayal of General Data Protection Regulation in the media means the new regulation will be one of the worst edicts ever introduced. However, from your customer’s perspective, the new data law may look very different. GDPR is set to help organizations truly respect their customers’ information by protecting it from possible cyber breaches, often accomplished by hackers via the Domain Name System (DNS). Industry research reveals it typically takes 99...
DNS SecurityGDPRWhy Businesses Should Fall in Love with GDPRFebruary is the month of love and this year, businesses have the best opportunity to show customers that they care about them. On the back of multiple, large-scale data breaches in 2017 and in the lead-up to GDPR in May 2018, data protection is a growing public concern. Despite the portrayed doom and gloom in the news about GDPR, the new regulation will help organizations gain more respect from their customers by protecting their data from potential breaches, often accomplished...
DNS SecurityDon’t Want to be the Next Equifax? Check Your DNS SecurityAs Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, delivered the closing address at Sibos 2017, the world’s premier Financial Services event held in Toronto, it became clear that digital innovation in the Financial Services industry will be a key topic on boardroom agendas in 2018. The discussions at Sibos 2017 focused more than ever on the need for cyber security, following several headlines on data breaches in the past months. From Equifax to Deloitte, the trail of disaster has left companies in...
DNSDNS SecurityDNS attacks are getting more sophisticated – North Americans better buckle up!For the third year, EfficientIP conducted one of the largest surveys exploring the technical and behavioral causes for the rise in DNS threats and their potential effects on businesses globally. Responses varied around the world, and so in a series of blog posts we’re going to highlight some key regional differences, looking at Europe, APAC, and in this first post, North America. DNS security is increasingly critical. With improvements in security in firewalls, operating systems, and other elements of our...
DNSDNS SecurityIPAMUsing DNS to Defend Against IoT BotnetsSometimes cyberattacks come from a direction you weren’t really expecting. We all know about threats from ransomware, nation-state actors, industrial espionage, or hacker collectives looking for personally-identifiable information (particularly for credit cards). But we probably weren’t expecting our sites and services to be collateral damage in a small but nasty war in the world of Minecraft gaming server providers. That’s what seems to be the reason for the rise of the Mirai botnet, and its attacks on the Dyn cloud...
DNS SecurityPublic Sector Network Security: A Race Against TimeAs we move more and more of our government-citizen interactions online, making sure we have access to those services becomes increasingly important. After all, we don’t want to be collateral victims of a DDoS attack on a government server just as we’re trying to submit our tax returns. Even more important is ensuring the personal information that the public sector (both local and national government) stores is secure. Databases of government-held information are the most worrying, whether they’re run by...
