Episode 381: Here Comes Cloud DNS
To make DNS more secure, we must move it to the cloud! At least that’s what Mozilla and Google suggest. We breakdown DNS-over-HTTPS, why it requires a “cloud” component, and the advantages it has over traditional DNS.
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Show Notes
To make DNS more secure, we must move it to the cloud! At least that’s what Mozilla and Google suggest. We breakdown DNS-over-HTTPS, why it requires a “cloud” component, and the advantages it has over traditional DNS.
Plus new active attacks against Apache Struts, and a Windows 10 zero-day exposed on Twitter.
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Links:
- Firefox Nightly Secure DNS Experimental Results
- DNS-over-HTTPS
- DNS over HTTPS
- A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS
- Discussion of draft-ietf-doh-dns-over-https in the IETF's DOH Working Group
- High performance DNS over HTTPS client & server
- Cloudflare Resolver for Firefox
- Active Attacks Detected Using Apache Struts Vulnerability CVE-2018-11776
- Windows 10 Zero-Day Vulnerability Exposed On Twitter
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