Tag: dnssec
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$150k in cryptocurrency stolen through combined BGP-DNS hijack
If the Internet is, as is often said, held together with elastic bands and pieces of Sellotape, BGP is essentially a bunch of post-it notes that serve as traffic signs. BGP hijacks – in which a malicious attacker essentially takes over one or more ranges of IP addresses – are not extremely common, but for a protocol…
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$150k in cryptocurrency stolen through combined BGP-DNS hijack
If the Internet is, as is often said, held together with elastic bands and pieces of Sellotape, BGP is essentially a bunch of post-it notes that serve as traffic signs. BGP hijacks – in which a malicious attacker essentially takes over one or more ranges of IP addresses – are not extremely common, but for a protocol…
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VB2014 paper: DNSSEC – how far have we come?
Nick Sullivan describes how DNSSEC uses cryptography to add authentication and integrity to DNS responses. Over the next months, we will be sharing conference papers as well as video recordings of the presentations. Today, we have added ‘DNSSEC – how far have we come?’ by CloudFlare’s Nick Sullivan. It is rather scary to think about…
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DNSSEC glitch causes .gov sites to become inaccessible
Name servers unable to distinguish faulty from rogue responses. A glitch at VeriSign yesterday led to DNSSEC-aware name servers being unable to verify responses on the .gov top-level domain (TLD), which in turn led to many users being unable to access services residing on a .gov domain. It wasn’t a good day for the Internet…
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Hacktivists hijack DNS of popular websites
Security at registrars may be weak link. A hacktivist group has managed to redirect the traffic of two popular websites by hijacking their DNS settings, researchers at Internet Identity report. The sites belong to UFC , a mixed martial arts promotion company, and Coach , which produces luxury goods. Both companies had expressed their support…