Hot for Security
hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com · Company blog · on HN since 2017
Hot for Security is Bitdefender's security news blog covering breaches, cryptocurrency theft, malware, and vulnerabilities.
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- 1Hack of US Navy Contractor Nets China 614 Gigabytes of Classified Information1 people · 32 points · first shared 2018 · 7 comments on HN
- 2Internet Explorer bug can reveal the contents of your address bar1 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 3Teenager charged over $50M SIM-swap cryptocurrency theft1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 4Heads-Up Teenage Hoodlums Don't SWAT Brian Krebs or Else1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 5Can You Crack Monero? IRS Offers $625,000 Bounty for Anyone Who Can1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6Data Breach: Bundle of Dating Apps Leaking Sensitive Information Discovered1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7Researchers extract plaintext master password from 1password (old version)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8Cryptocurrency Exchange Eterbase Loses $5.4M to Hackers Overnight1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 9Marriott data breach has cost the hotel chain only $3M so far1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 10DDoS attacker rescued by a Disney cruise ship1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 11Cybersecurity Myths That Criminals Love1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 12Advanced Android spyware found by Google after bypassing security for 3 years1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 13World DDoS attack record broken again – 1.7 terabits per second1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 14Mining cryptocurrency at work lands Australian civil servant in court1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 15You could still be at risk from this IE zero-day vulnerability1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
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EwanToo · 2020-06-17
There's a non-paywall article on the subject at:
https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/south-africas-postbank-is-…
brightball · 2017-02-22
https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/mathematician-impersonates…
Once that key is known, it can be impersonated. Regular rotation is a practical mitigation strategy and I like that Sendgrid took it on ahead of the game.
Since they are sending, they can create a new key on the second domain, tell new emails to use it without impacting anything in transit by leaving the old one active until it is changed for rotation.