Tag: hsts

  • $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…

  • $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…

  • Black Hat Europe – day 1

    Programme packed with interesting talks. Though the prestige of Black Hat Europe doesn’t compare to that of its American parent conference, and the event certainly doesn’t dominate the debate on Twitter in quite the same way, more than 800 security experts descended on Amsterdam this week where, in the RAI Convention Centre, the 14th edition…