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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

You're reading from   Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS Demystifying nameservers, DNS, and domain names

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135077
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mark E.Jeftovic Mark E.Jeftovic
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Preface 1. The Domain Name Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 2. Registries, Registrars, and Whois 3. Intellectual Property Issues 4. Communication Breakdowns 5. A Tale of Two Nameservers 6. DNS Queries in Action 7. Types and Uses of Common Resource Records 8. Quasi-Record Types 9. Common Nameserver Software 10. Debugging Without Tears – DNS Diagnostic Tools 11. DNS Operations and Use Cases 12. Nameserver Considerations 13. Securing Your Domains and DNS 14. DNS and DDoS Attacks 15. IPv6 Considerations 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Protecting your domains from unauthorized manipulation

DNS security extensions, such as DNSSEC, are used to authenticate your query responses and prevent cache poisoning. But it may be easier for an attacker to simply hack into your registrar account or other platform that has the ability to manipulate your domains, and hijack them.

Cybercriminals hack DNS provider to take over Brazilian bank

Shortly before this manuscript went to final review, news emerged via the 2017 Kaspersky Security Summit in St. Maarten of a sophisticated attack on a major Brazilian bank ,in which the attackers successfully hacked into the bank's DNS provider and then modified its DNS settings to take complete control over its traffic.

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