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, Stripe and locally, The Guardian, Nine, SMH and The Age were...
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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