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Few Reasons To Have Private Nameservers (And Other Important DNS Facts)
If you have a web hosting account, you’ve probably come across mentions of nameservers. But even if you’ve had to deal with nameservers when managing your hosting account, your web host probably didn’t explain what they are or how they work. Nameservers are provided by web hosts, and they are key to your website is visible on the web. Most nameservers provided by hosts look something like ns1.yourhostdomain.com. You’ll normally be given two different nameservers. Setting up nameservers usually only takes a few seconds once you have the right information. But what do nameservers actually do behind the scenes, and why is it crucial to get them right? Let’s look at the…
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Do you know that the internet is still actually controlled by 14 people?
The internet is still actually controlled by 14 people who hold 7 secret keys It sounds like something out of a Dan Brown book, but it isn’t. The whole internet is protected by seven highly protected keys, in the hands of 14 people. And in a few days, they are going to hold a historic ritual known as the Root Key Signing Ceremony. On Friday, October 21st morning, the world got a good reminder as to how important the organization that these people belong to is. A good chunk of the internet went down for a while when hackers managed to throw so much traffic at a company called Dyn, that Dyn’s…
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Don’t believe in all the emails, Stay Alert against Email Spoofing!
It is hard to imagine the world without emails. These are very fast and easy to access; hence, people prefer to communicate through emails. You can use emails for personal or official purposes. Nowadays, using emails also are not very safe. Email viruses and email spoofing are various forms of threats to the email users. Sometimes, the hackers sent viruses as an attachment through emails. E‑mail spoofing is the forgery of an e‑mail header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Caution! Email spoofing involves creation of email messages with a forged email ID that is familiar to the recipient…
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GoDaddy customers targeted by smart phishing scam
ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER PHISHING SCAM — THIS TIME, IT’S THE GODADDY CUSTOMERS. A phishing scam is one of the easiest techniques used by cyber criminals to steal personal or financial credentials of any user who is not familiar with social engineering. With everyday passing, these cyber scammers are coming up new and ever more convincing ways to trick users and take advantage of their online presence. The latest phishing scam according to Defend Mag is targeting GoDaddy users (mostly website owners) by sending emails from a legit GoDaddy address [email protected] The email content informs users that their email account storage on GoDaddy server has increased from the given 20MB limit…
