Weekend Reads 092923 Since its discovery in 2019, cyber espionage group RedHotel has successfully stolen secret information from at least 17 target nations worldwide. The vast majority of Internet users won’t notice any difference, but the update will support enhanced security for several Verisign-operated TLDs and pave the way for broader adoption and the next era of Domain Name System (DNS) security measures. New research has found that close to 12,000 internet-exposed Juniper firewall devices are vulnerable to a recently disclosed remote code execution flaw. At the birth of the registry model, Internet engineers could already foresee that the supply of IPv4 addresses would not sustain the predicted rate of consumption. Attacks related to Domain Name System infrastructure – such as DNS hijacking, DNS tunneling and DNS amplification attacks – are on the rise, and many IT organizations are questioning the security of their DNS infrastructure. An old Chinese state-linked threat actor has been quietly manipulating Cisco routers to breach multinational organizations in the US and Japan. Can open source software be regulated? Should it be regulated? And if so, will it lead to enhanced security? There are currently no restrictions on .AI registrations and it doesn’t help that the domain market is already a tough place to do business. Related Posted in WEEKEND READS ← Hedge 196: What’s up with Ethernet? (with Peter Jones)Hedge 197: Old Engineering Books (1) →
