Layered Security Without the Layered Complexity

With the recent influx of news reports regarding security incidents, more Chief Information Security Officers CISOs, Chief Information Officers CIOs, and IT professionals are reviewing current security infrastructures, policies, and practices to identify potential weaknesses in their security...

painswick-pc.gov.uk Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-296544 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| painswick-pc.gov.uk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| Open Redirect / CWE-601 CVSSv3 Score:| 3.4...

What makes a good "DNS Blacklist"? - Part 1

Reflections on Modern Actionable Threat Intelligence used to turn a DNS Resolver into a Critical Security Tool Akamai has just launched the Enterprise Threat Protection ETP platform. ETP is built on Akamai's global AnswerX Cloud that now reaches 28 countries and is expanding to new countries ever...

bind: assertion failure in DNSSEC validation

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled DNSSEC validation. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response...

The Journey to Hijacking a Country’s TLD – The Hidden Risks of Domain Extensions

I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his...

DDoS Attacks against DNS Infrastructure in the News

DNS-based DDoS attacks have gained mindshare among Akamai customers lately, most recently with last year's Dyn attacks written about on the Akamai Blog here and here and this week's attack against Cedexis. DNS infrastructure is a ripe target for malicious actors hoping to disrupt a digital...

Dashlane: Throttling Bypass - ws1.dashlane.com

Description The host at ws1.dashlane.com throttles requests based on the IP address of the user after a certain amount of repeated requests. By adding the X-Forwarded-For header, an attacker can bypass the throttling completely, rendering the security measure ineffective against DOS attacks. Proo...

CVE-2017-3136

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled query requests when using DNS64 with "break-dnssec yes" option. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS request. Mitigation Servers which have...

bind: assertion failure while handling a query response containing inconsistent DNSSEC information

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled a query response containing inconsistent DNSSEC information. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response...

bind: assertion failure while handling a query response containing inconsistent DNSSEC information

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled a query response containing inconsistent DNSSEC information. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9147

named in ISC BIND 9.9.9-P4, 9.9.9-S6, 9.10.4-P4, and 9.11.0-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit via a response containing an inconsistency among the DNSSEC-related RRsets...

ISC BIND 9 DNSSEC Assertion Failure Denial of Service Vulnerability

ISC BIND is the United States Internet Systems Consortium ISC company maintains a set of open source software that implements the DNS protocol. A remote denial of service vulnerability exists in ISC BIND named, which can be exploited to cause a denial of service by an attacker who incorrectly...

Securing DNS Communication: dnscrypt-proxy

dnscrypt-proxy is a flexible DNS proxy. It runs on your computer or router, and can locally block unwanted content, reveal where your devices are silently sending data to, make applications feel faster by caching DNS responses, and improve security and confidentiality by communicating to upstream...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: bind97 security update

An update for bind97 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Legal Robot: unsecured legalrobot.co.uk assets

A security researcher found that multiple gTLD permutations of our legalrobot domain names like legalrobot.co.uk were allowing access to sensitive ports 22 and disclosing vulnerable server versions. While these other domains are, for the time being, intended to simply redirect to our main...

SOL06145135 - Remote DNS security filter vulnerabilities CVE-2003-1491 and CVE-2004-1473

Vulnerability Recommended Actions None Supplemental Information SOL9970: Subscribing to email notifications regarding F5 products SOL9957: Creating a custom RSS feed to view new and updated documents SOL4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy SOL4918: Overview of the F5...

bind: malformed DNSSEC key failed assertion denial of service

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND parsed certain malformed DNSSEC keys. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted DNS query for example, a query requiring a response from a zone containing a deliberately malformed key that would cause named functioning as ...

CentOS Update for bind CESA-2015:1705 centos7

Check the version of bind SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882274";...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4620

name.c in named in ISC BIND 9.7.x through 9.9.x before 9.9.7-P1 and 9.10.x before 9.10.2-P2, when configured as a recursive resolver with DNSSEC validation, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit by constructing crafted zone data and then...

MGASA-2015-0180 Updated python-pip packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated python-pip and python-virtualenv packages fix security vulnerability: The mirroring support in python-pip was implemented without any sort of authenticity checks and is downloaded over plaintext HTTP. Further more by default it will dynamically discover the list of available mirrors by...