Hacker News with Generative AI: Internet Security

2024 U.S. Election: Exploring the Surge in Cyber Activity and Cyber Attacks (cloudflare.com)
Elections are not just a matter of casting ballots. They depend on citizens being able to register to vote and accessing information about candidates and the election process, which in turn depend on the strength and security of the Internet. Despite the risks posed by potential cyberattacks aimed to disrupt democracy, Cloudflare did not observe any significant disruptions to campaigns or local government websites from cyberattack.
Cybersecurity, Elections, U.S. Politics, Internet Security
6 points by emot 14 days ago | 0 comments
The Alarming Prevalence of Zone Transfers (reconwave.com)
We found that 8% of all nameservers still have zone transfers enabled for all authorized zones, potentially exposing sensitive information to malicious actors.
Security, DNS, Internet Security
11 points by olamoskae 31 days ago | 6 comments
Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.
Cybersecurity, DDoS Attacks, Cloudflare, Internet Security, Network Security
10 points by syck 50 days ago | 0 comments
Ephemeral IDs: a new tool for fraud detection (cloudflare.com)
In the early days of the Internet, a single IP address was a reliable indicator of a single user. However, today’s Internet is more complex. Shared IP addresses are now common, with users connecting via mobile IP address pools, VPNs, or behind CGNAT (Carrier Grade Network Address Translation). This makes relying on IP addresses alone a weak method to combat modern threats like automated attacks and fraudulent activity.
Fraud Detection, Security, Internet Security, IP Addresses
17 points by leiferik 59 days ago | 7 comments
White House Cyber Director Releases Roadmap to Enhance Internet Routing Security (whitehouse.gov)
Cybersecurity, Internet Security, Government, Technology, Policy
12 points by ChrisArchitect 79 days ago | 2 comments
White House's New Roadmap to Enhance Internet Routing Security [pdf] (whitehouse.gov)
Internet Security, Cybersecurity, Government, Policy
5 points by bobismyuncle 79 days ago | 2 comments
Malaysian ISPs Hijack Cloudflare/Google DNS Requests (torrentfreak.com)
Internet Security, DNS, Malaysia, ISPs
18 points by lcof 105 days ago | 1 comments
Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice (krebsonsecurity.com)
Cybersecurity, Domain Names, Internet Security
221 points by LinuxBender 120 days ago | 159 comments
Intent to end OCSP service (letsencrypt.org)
Security, Internet Security, Certificates, SSL/TLS
415 points by soheilpro 121 days ago | 143 comments
Cloudflare reports almost 7% of internet traffic is malicious (zdnet.com)
Cybersecurity, Internet Security, Cloudflare, Data Security
11 points by CrankyBear 128 days ago | 4 comments
FCC pushes ISPs to fix security flaws in Internet routing (arstechnica.com)
Internet Security, Regulation, Technology, Networking
12 points by foresto 167 days ago | 0 comments
US Post Office phishing sites get as much traffic as the real one (bleepingcomputer.com)
Cybersecurity, Phishing, Internet Security
66 points by gennarro 206 days ago | 20 comments
Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP (arstechnica.com)
Cybersecurity, Antivirus Software, Internet Security, Data Breaches
48 points by LinuxBender 211 days ago | 2 comments
We ensure Cloudflare customers aren't affected by LE's certificate chain change (cloudflare.com)
Security, Cloudflare, Internet Security, Certificates, Let's Encrypt
36 points by stanleydrew 222 days ago | 16 comments