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How the Daily Express accidentally DDoS’ed a small Limerick based design agency (again!*)

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

This is a follow up from “DNS is the backbone of the internet, get it wrong and it can cause serious problems - just look at the Daily Express website”. On Tuesday this week I visited the Daily Express by typing in it’s address manually not using a search engine. A search engine would take you to www.express.co.uk but enter it manually and you go to http://express.co.uk.

As covered last time the www A record sends you to www.express.co.uk and the @ A record sends you to http://express.co.uk. On entering http://express.co.uk on Tuesday I ended up at www.bluechief.ie. Both Blue Chief and the newspaper use Dublin. AWS for their hosting. I tweeted to Blue Chief and The Daily Express, and emailed The Daily Express on the same day of discovering the issue.

Cyber risks are too often ignored by management

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

Project Managers and top management need a better security understanding to allocate resources and to sign off technical risks.

Over the years I have worked across various sectors, from single-person companies to giant central government departments and publicly-known FTSE 100 corporations. The one thing all have in common is poor security processes, little interest and very basic understanding of security controls, risks and threats.

DNS is the backbone of the internet, get it wrong and it can cause serious problems - just look at the Daily Express website

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

Domain Name System is what DNS stands for and in simple English it is the phone book or doctors surgeries paper index listings of the internet. When you go to bing.com you don’t actually go to bing.com, your query is resolved to a single IP address or multiple. Humans are not good with remembering numbers, well remembering something simple like 888.com is easy though it still goes to a IP address, for everything else DNS does it for you. It also holds email records, sub domains, domain aliases and more.

Why am I randomly writing about DNS you will wonder when plenty of other people wrote about it many years ago? Yesterday randomly I typed in express.co.uk without the www and without the use of a search engine. I ended up at a completely random website: https://app-a702.mangahigh.com/en-gb/login - screenshot below.