For a week we lost control of the Perl.com domain. Now that the incident has died down, we can explain some of what happened and how we handled it. This incident only affected the domain ownership of Perl.com and there was no other compromise of community resources. This website was still there, but DNS was handing out different IP numbers. An interesting article was ... View Post
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Ledger users lose 1.1M XRP via homoglyph attack
Many crypto-currency holders use Ledger hardware wallets to store their bitcoin off the exchanges. This is actually the safer way to play it, except when you fall prey to a phishing campaign to lure you to a fake site to update your firmware that instead, drains your wallet. Unfortunately even when employing a hardware wallet, you still have be on your guard ... View Post
How Cybercriminals Profit by Tapping Your Email
A few days ago I came across the CBC story on how a Canadian man had been defrauded out of $800,000 when cybercriminals inserted themselves into a real estate deal and had the funds diverted to themselves: ... View Post
Why You Must Learn to Love DNSSEC
(This is a reprint of an article originally run on our parent company's blog in June 2018). It’s been nearly two months since the high profile BGP hijack attack against MyEtherwallet, where crypto thieves used BGP leaks to hijack MEW’s name servers, which were on Amazon’s Route53, and inserted their own fake name servers which directed victims to ... View Post
The Case for Hot Swappable Nameservers
(reprint of an article we once wrote for CircleId) Earlier this week we announced our "Proactive Nameservers”, which is just marketing speak for what it really is: hot swappable nameservers or nameserver fail over. What is it? Basically this: you define some warm spare nameservers that are not normally in your delegation you load those servers up ... View Post