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 their own fake wallet site, thereby draining some people’s wallets. It generated a lot […]
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[AxisOfEasy] Why You Need To Learn To Love DNSSEC
Weekly Axis Of Easy #54 This week’s quote: “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses” —by ???? Last Week’s Quote was “Sooner or later, everybody sits down to a banquet of consequences” by Robert Louis Stephenson. Winner: Ivan Petrovic HOWEVER – Tony King points out that this […]
Network Upgrade
The easyDNS network infrastructure will undergo a migration and upgrade Saturday, June 16th, 2018, at 6:00pm Eastern Time. During the migration/upgrade, some services may experience short (from a few seconds to a few minutes) outages. There will be NO impact to DNS resolution. Date: Saturday, June 16th, 2018Time: 6:00pm ET to MidnightDuration: Maximum 6 hoursPurpose: Network migration/upgradeEnvironments […]
Impending "Fake News" Bill Brings Censorship, Free Speech Concerns
Weekly Axis Of Easy #53 This week’s quote: “Sooner or later, everybody sits down to a banquet of consequences”. —by ???? Last Week’s Quote was “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed” by William Gibson. Winner: Marc Dacey THE RULES: No Googling the answer, must be posted to this blog post below The Prize: First person to post […]
Google’s “Selfish Ledger” Dystopian Vision Of Techno-Future
Weekly Axis Of Easy #52 New Thing: Every week I’ll post a quote, first person to correctly post the attribution below in the comments gets their next domain or hosting renewal on us. (Do it without Googling it, on your honour) This week’s quote: “The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed”. —by ???? Extended to June […]
Why Should Non-Euro Companies Care About GDPR?
Weekly Axis Of Easy #51 In this issue: Amazon’s Alexa sent this couple’s private conversations to somebody else Google shuts down entire company after one employee triggers AUP violation Company buying location data from telecoms was also leaking it via security flaw Hackers target home routers and IoT devices Emergency brakes disabled on Uber autonomous […]