A recently published paper revealed how ten of the fourteen most popular VPN services are vulnerable to IPv6-leak and all but one is vulnerable to DNS hijacking attack; however, VPN providers have…
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Hackers target Google Malaysia homepage in DNS attack
Internet users complained they could not access the Google Malaysia website on Tuesday as they were redirected to a webpage with a black background and white, red and yellow text saying “Google…
Apple’s core services back to normal post Wednesday outage
Apple’s iTunes, App Store, iCloud, iBooks Store and Mac App Store were found to be working normally on Wednesday afternoon following a long and rare breakdown. The global outage, which began around…
Google: Turkish ISPs are intercepting our DNS
Google on Saturday confirmed that most of the Turkish Internet service providers are intercepting its public DNS (Domain Name System) service by setting up masquerade DNS servers. “We have received several credible…
Developer accuses 123-reg of lapse in security after 120 domains redirect to ransom sites
123-reg, one of UK’s leading hosting providers, has reportedly been accused of a security failure after a user complained his account had been hacked and his clients’ domains redirecting to a ransomware…
DNSSEC surpasses 50% implementation milestone
ICANN has announced that majority of top level domains in the root have DNSSEC and the overall implementation of the DNS Security Extensions has surpassed 50 percent milestone. Described as one of…