Oracle's Dyn service have a research lab, who analyse information from the Internet. In the blog entry below, they look at the recent loss of connectivity on the ACE (Africa…
Cloudflare adds Secure DNS service on 1.1.1.1
Cloudflare has expanded the range of secure DNS services available. As well as Cisco's OpenDNS, Google's DNS service, Oracle's Dyn, and the recent Quad 9 service, Cloudflare now adds 1.1.1.1…
IPDetails – a useful multi-tool to gather details about an IP address
What I initially needed IPDetails to offer A couple of months ago I needed a tool that allowed me to gather more information on IP addresses that I'd collected using…
New secure Quad9 DNS service supports IPv6
Quad9 is a new DNS service that prevents against malware. Previously I would have recommended OpenDNS to provide this service. But OpenDNS doesn't support IPv6 with the malware protection. It…
Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge
Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…
$3m cost when forgetting to re-register your domain.
Every couple of years I get a bunch of emails from my ISP. These are reminding me that my domain name is about to expire and that if I don't…
Now we have SiLK, let’s get it set up..
So Installation of SiLK from the ground up on Centos 7 is only part of the story. You need to configure it to actually collect some data, and then to…
MDSec produce PowerShell delivery via DNS
Remember a few months ago, I posted a piece via Engadget about Cisco's Talos team finding bot control traffic in DNS data. Now MDSec have produced and published a proof…