Optimise Your Online Presence with Brandsec and Premium DNS
In today’s digital-first world, ensuring your domain name system (DNS) is fast, secure, and reliable is critical. Your DNS is the backbone of your online presence. But while DNS often works in the background, poor DNS management can lead to service outages, lost...
Why Domain Registrars Are Key to Stopping Fast Flux Phishing
A recent Dark Reading article highlighted the continued growth of fast flux phishing, an old tactic that’s been on the radar of enforcement professionals for years. Maybe a forgotten scam for many, those of us working in the phishing takedowns and cyber enforcement space are...
Pros and Cons of DNSSEC
In this blog, we explore the origins of DNSSEC, explain how it works at a high level, and examine the key challenges that have slowed its adoption. We also break down the main pros and cons of DNSSEC to help you decide whether implementing it is the right move for your...
DNS for starters
02 February 2023
What is DNS:
DNS is the system that translates domain names into IP addresses. This allows you to use a human-readable domain name (such as www.example.com) instead of a machine-readable IP address (such as 192.0.2.1).
How DNS Works:
When an end-user sends a...
Understanding DNS attacks
15 December 2022
DNS Attacks: DNS, or the Domain Name System, is a critical infrastructure technology that is used to translate human-readable domain names into the numerical IP addresses that computers use to communicate with each other on the internet. As with any...
Anycast Enterprise DNS versus Unicast Standard DNS
15 December 2022
Anycast and Unicast are two different methods for routing network traffic in a network. Both methods are commonly used in the Domain Name System (DNS), which is the system that translates human-readable domain names (like google.com) into the numerical IP...
Australian websites impacted by Registry DNS error
24 March 2022 – A number of sites with Australian domain names did not resolve correctly on Tuesday afternoon.
The issue was present for about three hours before it appeared to be resolved.
It was reported that 15,000 major news and government websites were affected by...
TsuName: New DDoS threat to DNS hits New Zealand
There is a new variation of DDoS attack that allows attackers to target authoritative DNS servers. The vulnerability was identified this week leading to a 50% increase in traffic volume for the .nz authoritative servers. In this case, it was caused by two misconfigured...
Registry Lock is critical for important domains
This article looks at the importance of Registry Lock with the growing number of DNS Hijacking attacks.With DNS attacks up 34% according to the last IDC annual report it is more important than ever to ensure that every measure to protect your business from DNS Hijacking, and...
Selecting DNS for your domain names
DNS service availability and integrity must become a key priority for any organisation as DNS targeted attacks rise across all sectors. We have previously written that not all DNS is created equally, and often DNS is the achilles heal in a business’s digital...
A look at the different types of DNS, with a focus on Anycast DNS
Anycast DNS helps business create scale and redundancy for large query loads and ensures continuity of service during peak traffic periods. It helps cut down on latency and bandwidth costs, improves load time for users, and improves availability. Any online property that...
DNS DDoS Attacks
In May, the Tel Aviv University published findings of a new type of DNS Deliberate Denial of Service (DDoS) attack called a NXNSAttack – a vulnerability in DNS servers that can be abused to launch this DNS DDoS attack on a huge scale.
An NXNSAttack works as follows:
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