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Infoblox operates in the DDI (DNS, DHCP and IP address management) space, working with network security and cloud security operations and has done for the past 25 years. It was recently in Sydney and told us about its new networking product.

GUEST RESEARCH: Researchers at Infoblox and Eclypsium have discovered that a powerful attack vector in the domain name system (DNS) is being widely exploited across many DNS providers. We have found that over a dozen Russian-nexus cybercriminal actors are using this attack vector to hijack domain names without being noticed. We call this the Sitting Ducks attack.

Content delivery network and cloud provider Akamai Technologies has expanded the way users of hybrid DNS infrastructure can protect themselves against resource exhaustion attacks.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced a new flexible business model for managed security service providers (MSSPs). The offering enables service providers to enjoy new revenue streams and grow their businesses by extending an innovative line of managed network and application security services to their customers.

GUEST RESEARCH: Halloween might be the spookiest time of the year, but threat actors are doing frightening things on the internet every day. In the past month we have introduced two terms: Domain Name System (DNS) threat actors and RDGA (registered domain generation algorithm). We also gave a taste of one type of DNS threat actor, the persistent phisher, through an exposé of Open Tangle.

iTWireTV speaks with Infoblox managing director ANZ Scott Morris about DNS security, lookalike domain monitoring, and the call Infoblox is making to the industry to unite networking and security teams.

A number of sites with Australian domain names did not resolve correctly on Tuesday afternoon, giving rise to speculation that a move by auDA, the domain administrator, to offer a new .au domain was the cause.

ANALYSIS A Facebook engineer issued a command to assess the availability of global backbone capacity and this, unintentionally, took down all the connections in the company's backbone, effectively cutting off all its data centres, the company says.

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare has beaten Facebook to the punch in explaining why the latter suffered a major outage earlier today, with the site disappearing from the Web at about 2.30am AEDT.

The A and AAA domain name system records for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have disappeared, leading to the blackout of the three sites from the Internet, in what appears to be a problem caused by a border gateway protocol mistake.

Core network and security services vendor Infoblox has released Infoblox 3.0, bringing together its NIOS on-premises DDI solution, cloud-native BloxOne Threat Defense and BloxOne DDI.

InternetNZ, the domain name authority for New Zealand, says it has fixed a vulnerability in authoritative DNS servers like those run by the top-level domain operators.

Unknown individuals have redirected the website of One Nation's Pauline Hanson so that anyone who attempts to visit it will be sent to the website of the Refugee Council of Australia.

GUEST RESEARCH: Q3 2020 Internet Security Report sheds light on COVID-19 threat trends, growing network attacks, malware targeting US SCADA systems, and more.

Using stronger passwords and multi-factor authentication on registrar and DNS hosting accounts would help to solve security issues around attacks that have been launched under the hacking campaign known as DNSpionage, the well-known domain name system expert Cricket Liu says.

Two new appointees for neutral provider of real-time info services Neustar are claimed to be in order to "drive growth, product innovation, new roadmaps, go-to-market strategies and better security solutions for its customers".

Internet traffic bound for Amazon's Route 53 cloud service was hijacked for two hours on Tuesday, using known weaknesses in the border gateway protocol, which is used for routing traffic around the globe.

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare has launched what it calls a privacy-oriented domain name system with two IP addresses, 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1.

Russia has hinted that it may build its own domain name system by August next year, citing US control of the current infrastructure as the reason for doing so.

A scheduled cryptographic key change for DNSSEC has been delayed, partly because of a software issue.