Your team wants a hosted docs site, a support portal, or a token-claim page. So, the vendor sends over a DNS record, and someone asks you to paste it into the control panel. Before you do, check what you’re connecting. Users will see your project’s domain, even when another company runs the service behind it. That familiar address carries trust, especially when ... View Post
How-to's
Before You Change Name Servers, Check Your DNSSEC
You copied the DNS records, checked the website, and changed the name servers. Except, now customers say the site will not load. Yet, your server is healthy, and the new DNS provider is answering queries. Before you restart anything, check the DS record. With DNSSEC enabled, moving DNS providers can leave a broken link in the system that proves your DNS answers ... View Post
You Bought the Company. Did You Get Control of Its Domains?
The acquisition has closed. The website is still running, and somebody has sent your IT team a spreadsheet of passwords. Before you mark the domain handover complete, try one more thing: Administer it without calling the seller: Can your team sign in with its own authentication methods? Receive a recovery message? Authorize a critical change? A ... View Post
How Attackers Weaponize Legitimate Link Shorteners (And What You Can Do About It)
Your employee clicks what looks like an innocuous bit.ly link in an email. Seconds later, they're on a convincing fake login page, credentials entering the attacker's hands before anyone realizes what happened. What you just read isn't a made up story. It's a typical Tuesday. URL shorteners like bit.ly, TinyURL, and the 1,200+ other redirect services cataloged ... View Post
Amazon’s DNS Crash Exposed a Global Weak Spot — Here’s How to Protect Your Brand
Over the weekend, the internet reminded us just how fragile it can be. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major DNS-related failure, thousands of websites, apps, banks, and platforms worldwide were knocked offline within minutes. As WIRED put it, “When the system couldn’t correctly resolve which server to connect to, cascading failures took down services ... View Post
DNS Spoofing: A Deep Dive Into This Devious Cyber Attack (and How to Stop It)
The Internet's Trust Problem Picture this: You're heading to an important business meeting, and you call your most trusted contact for directions. They confidently give you an address, you follow their guidance perfectly, and you end up at a completely different location—one that looks legitimate but is actually controlled by someone with malicious intent. This ... View Post






