New DDoS Attack Record in June 2022
Sunday 17 July 2022 Last month, a massive botnet-induced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has hit the Internet, two years after the record-breaking 23 million requests per second (RPS) [...]
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 [...]
.AU experienced 131% increase in DNS queries last FY
AuDA, Australia's .au regulatory body issued its annual report last week, covering the 20/21 financial year. During this period, the .au domain name space increased 5% to over 3.34 million [...]
Bug: Hackers could spy on Google, AWS DNS traffic
Security firm Wiz, announced that they had discovered a simple loophole that allows the interception a portion of dynamic DNS traffic from all Internet traffic that was routed through managed DNS [...]
SPF records, from nice to have to must have
SPF records are critical to all businesses, small to enterprise. Have you ever received an email that looks like it is from a Bank but it is actually from a [...]
Secondary DNS – why brands should consider it
Secondary DNS often gets overlooked in infrastructure architectural planning. This article looks at the benefits of implementing secondary DNS to an organizations network. In recent times we have seen major [...]
Akamai: Second DNS disruption in a month
Akamai, global leader of content delivery network (CDN) and DNS for media and software delivery, and cloud security solutions went down for the second time in a month. This follows [...]
The benefits of Anycast DNS
The benefits of Anycast DNS When looking for a reliable DNS solution, you may often come across the term of Anycast and Unicast DNS. This article looks at the benefits [...]
CDN failure takes down countless global brands
Popular websites such as the Age, Reddit, Twitter, Amazon, New York Times, CNN, BBC, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]