Can hackers knock out the Internet? Probably not, but it look like attackers tried to disrupt DNS recent by launching a distributed denial of service attack against the root DNS servers. Watch today's video to learn how the IT community can make it harder for attackers to launch reflected attacks. (Episode Runtime: 4:04) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
ICANN Breach & More Sony – WSWiR Episode 133
Wow! This week's been such a busy news week that the information security (InfoSec) stories kept pouring in, long after I finished this week's video. The latest? CERT just warned about some critical vulnerabilities in NTPd, a popular network time protocol (NTP) service that many network devices and software uses. If you use NTPd, look into it (and I'll post more soon). In the … [Read more...]
WatchGuard's DNS Proxy Supports DNSSEC
On Wednesday May 5, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) (and other partners) plan to complete the first phase of DNSSEC introduction, by rolling DNSSEC out to all thirteen of the Internet's root DNS servers. DNSSEC makes some significant changes to the way typical DNS traffic "looks" to networking devices. As a result, some experts worry that … [Read more...]
