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Sub-domain takeover vulnerability found in Flywheel

December 25, 2021

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Flywheel is a popular WordPress hosting platform. The platform allows users to build their own attractive and efficient websites. However, a report by Resecurity has stated that a Sub-domain takeover vulnerability associated with Flywheel has been found. First we have to understand what a Sub-domain is. A domain name usually consists of a domain and a TLD, as for example abc.xyz. Here abc is the...

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Hackers Impersonate WordPress To Hijack Domains

November 18, 2021

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Researchers at Naked Security, the web security arm of the British IT security company Sophos, recently got an e-mail from WordPress. It offered them an upgrade to DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) from DNS (Domain Name System) for their domain. It highlighted the drawbacks of the DNS and the advantages of a domain with DNSSEC over the DNS. If you’re a beginner reading this, DNS is...

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