Major DNS Attacks, Lakes On Titan, and 3D Printed Hearts
This week in tech
As I wrote in March DNS is critically vulnerable and attacks targeting it have been escalating lately. The non-profit that coordinates much of the global DNS (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN) issued an urgent warning back in February about the growing threat to DNS. This week, Wired broke a story about an ongoing DNS campaign called Sea Turtle which has compromised entier Top Level Domain servers for multiple country codes — meaning attackers could in theory hijack traffic bound for every website ending with that suffix (.ru, or .co.uk, for example). The attackers’ identities and goals are not yet known, but according to Cisco’s Talos Security team, the primary targets have been countries in the middle east.
The cryptocurrency world has been a little quiet lately, but this week some seastedding crypto-enthusiasts got a wake up call from Thai authorities. The couple had been trying to live the libertarian dream. With a floating home in international waters 12 miles off the coast of Thailand, they assumed they’d be free from laws and governments. Unfortunately for the couple, the Thai government decided to assert their authority anyway, and the couple is now on the run according to Motherboard.
