Tag Archives : Domain Name System

Home routers are vulnerable to attacks

Home routers are vulnerable to attacks

A serious security flaw directly affects millions of home routers (devices to share internet in the house), even the fully updated. It says the security expert Craig Heffner, who promises to provide details at Black Hat (blackhat.com), digital security convention to be held later this month. Even without all the details, the information released worry. [...]
Oops, I think we broke the Internet!

Oops, I think we broke the Internet!

On last Monday, about a million websites with the ending “.se” disappeared for almost one hour. According to the site Computerworld, the responsible organ for the registration of domains of the country affirmed that the problem was caused by the use of a script configured incorrectly to update the “.se” area, what caused the mistake [...]