Category: DNS

Sep 20 2023

Nominet and European counterparts link up on intelligence sharing

3 minutes of reading / cybersecurity, DNS, firewalls, Tech, Technology / By Comkex

The UK’s internet domain registrar, Nominet, has joined up with its counterparts from across Europe to launch a top-level domain information sharing and analysis centre (TLD ISAC) with the aim of strengthening cyber security capabilities and resilience through increased collaboration among TLD operators. The other authorities joining Nominet to launch the European TLD ISAC are…

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Sep 13 2023

ExtraHop open sources 16 million rows of threat domain data

3 minutes of reading / Cloud, data science, DNS, Git, GitHub, machine learning, open source, Tech / By Comkex

Cloud-native network detection and response (NDR) specialist ExtraHop hopes to give security researchers and defenders a little extra help when it comes to defending against malware and botnet operations, by making its entire 16 million row domain generated by algorithm (DGA) dataset publicly available on GitHub. So-called DGAs are programs that use algorithmic generation to…

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Sep 4 2023

How startup Once.net and Cloudflare secured the 2023 Eurovision vote

9 minutes of reading / API, Cloud, Cloudflare, DNS, Git, Tech / By Comkex

With 64 contests, 67 winners, 101 live shows, 52 participating countries, 1,500 songs, 12 points, seven wins for Ireland, seven for Sweden, five apiece for the UK, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, The Eurovision Song Contest is as heavy on statistics as any sporting league. With viewer numbers regularly in the hundreds of millions, and an…

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