Resources to Help You Take Advantage of Time
With time comes opportunity. As we all get more accustomed to working from home, many of us will realize how much time and energy we waste in our business lives. Time is lost doing a number of things: driving to work, chit-chatting with friends, joining endless meetings, and the list goes on. Mind you, this…
Read MoreMitigating Web Threats with DNS Security | CleanBrowsing
On December 18th, DeepInstinct put out a great article outlining the latest Legion Loader campaign. Whether a parent, or organization, this served as a great example to demonstrate the effectiveness of DNS security in mitigating this type of attack. Legion Loader Campaign This campaign is suspected of being a dropper-for-hire campaign because of the number…
Read MoreDNS Firewall to Enhance Your Networks Security | CleanBrowsing
DNS is the internets lookup table, it builds a bridge between the domain name (e.g., perezbox.com) and the IP address (e.g., 184.24.56.17). The IP address being where you can find the server that hosts the domain. In addition to its job as a lookup table, it can also serve as an effective security control. DNS…
Read MoreMozilla Introduces Mechanism to Hijack all DNS Traffic in the Name of Privacy
In September of 2019 Mozilla will begin releasing DNS over HTTPS (DOH) in Firefox via their Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) program. A primer on DNS Security. The change is based on a theme we’ve heard before: a) the old protocols don’t take security and privacy into consideration, and b) there is the threat that people…
Read MoreRethinking the Value of Premium SSL Certificates
There is an active campaign to reshape how online consumers see SSL certificates, with special interest in shutting down premium certificates by the browsers and security practitioners. This article will shed some light into what is going on, provide some context as to why it’s happening; and it will also offer my own personal opinions…
Read MoreANALYZING SUCURI’S 2018 HACKED WEBSITE TREND REPORT
The Sucuri team recently released their second annual security report for 2018 – Hacked Website Report 2018. It looks at a representative sample of infected websites from the Sucuri customer base ONLY. This report helps understand the actions taken by bad actors once they penetrate a website. This report analyzed 25,466 infected websites and 4,426,795 cleaned files; aggregating…
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