Image source: HealthWyze via Pixabay According to a joint report by iYouPort, the University of Maryland, and the Great Firewall Report, TLS connections using the preliminary encrypted SNI extension (ESNI) are being blocked in China. A new step towards censorship and a desire to be able to track Internet users. What is SNI (Server Name Indication)? When an Internet user consults a website in HTTPS://, it means that the site is secured by an SSL/TLS certificate. The consultation of the ... Read More
Category: Cybersecurity
Interpol warns of alarming rise in cyberattacks during COVID
Image source : geralt via Pixabay In a new study of August 2020, INTERPOL measured the impact of COVID-19 on cybercrime. The results reveal that while the primary targets of cyberattacks usually remain individuals and SMEs, these have significantly expanded to large organizations and governments during the COVID period, revealing a new underlying trend. The fact that working from home was massively implemented has obviously increased vulnerabilities which cybercriminals have been able to ... Read More
The importance of reverse DNS
Image source : Jonbonsilver via Pixabay Reverse DNS is often unknown to domain name managers, especially when the names are hosted by major hosting companies. Reverse DNS allows you to resolve from an IP address to an FQDN. This is the exact opposite of the classic use of DNS, which associates domain names to IP addresses. The reverse DNS allows to answer the question: I have an IP address, what is the FQDN related to it? Reverse DNS operates by creating a reverse DNS zone in which DNS PT... Read More
Companies’ cybersecurity – 5th edition of CESIN’s annual barometer
Image source: TheDigitalArtist via Pixabay Every year, the Club of Experts in Information and Digital Security (CESIN) publishes its barometer of companies’ cybersecurity in order to better understand the perception and concrete reality of cybersecurity and its issues within CESIN member companies. Last January, CESIN unveiled the results of its OpinionWay survey, carried out from the 2nd of December 2019 to the 7th of January 2020 among its 253 members, Chief Information Security Officer... Read More
Let’s Encrypt, do not confuse confidentiality and security
Let’s Encrypt was recently the subject of discussions in the small world of TLS certificates, by suddenly revoking 3 048 289 certificates which should not have been issued. A bug in its validation software prevented CAA registrations controls, and the certificates in question should not have been initially issued. These significant disruptions resulted from this mass revocation, but it is difficult to complain about a free service. I am often asked what I think of Let’s Encrypt, an... Read More
Nameshield renews its ISO 27001 certification
Nameshield Group is an expert in domain names, DNS, TLS/SSL certificates management. Through our experience gained from world-renowned customers with ever-increasing security requirements, we have also become technical experts in Information security. That is why we have implemented an Information Security Management System (ISMS). In 2017, we obtained the ISO 27001 certification of this ISMS for our activities of domain names portfolio, DNS and TLS/SSL certificates management. Namesh... Read More
Apple announces the limitation of SSL certificates duration to 1 year in Safari
Source de l’image : kropekk_pl via Pixabay Apple announced this week that the maximum lifetime of SSL / TLS certificates on its devices and Safari browser would be limited to 398 days (1 year, and 1 month to cover the renewal period). The change, announced by Apple at the CA / Browser Forum meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, will take effect for certificates issued after August 31, 2020. Apple’s announcement follows a failure of the CA / B Forum’s vote on one-year certificates (... Read More
Municipal elections 2020: buzyn2020.fr and buzyn2020.paris domain names redirect towards Anne Hidalgo’s campaign
Image source: Sadnos via Pixabay Following the announcement on Sunday February 16, of Agnès Buzyn’s candidacy to Paris municipal elections, several political journalists discovered on Monday that the domain name buzyn2020.fr was registered but redirected towards “Paris en commun”, the campaign website of another candidate, Anne Hidalgo. Several other names were registered on Sunday night, also redirecting towards Paris en commun’s homepage like buzyn2020.paris, agnesbuzyn2020.fr and agnes... Read More
FIC 2020 – Nameshield’s DNS Premium labelled France Cybersecurity once again
During the 12th edition of the International Cybersecurity Forum (FIC), the major event in terms of cybersecurity and digital confidence, which currently takes place from January 28 to 30 in Lille, Nameshield was given once again the France Cybersecurity Label for its DNS Premium solution. 8th Edition of the France Cybersecurity Labels ceremony, January 29, 2020 Nameshield’s DNS Premium labelled France Cybersecurity The DNS is at the heart of companies’ critical services: Internet, em... Read More
2020 and the SSL, a small prediction exercise
Browsers and Certification Authorities, the battle continues. Image source : TheDigitalArtist via Pixabay 2019 was a busy year, with growing differences of opinion between browsers makers and Certification Authorities, an explosion in the number of phishing sites encrypted in HTTPS and significant progress on the depreciation of TLS v1.0. Discussions on extended validation, more generally the visual display of certificates in browsers, and the reduction of the duration of certificates ... Read More
