Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter about the WebSniffer project, Web, computer networks and cybersecurity 👋

This newsletter issue contains the following three sections:

🌐 WebSniffer Update
🗓️ Events
📰 News

🌐 WebSniffer Update

In this section you will learn about the latest product updates of the WebSniffer project.

WebSniffer is an intelligence platform in the making that is going to track changes on the web and provide actionable insights to its users. The online tool can currently view HTTP response headers of any web page, do domain name, IP address lookups and provides user’s browser information such as IP address, user agent and more.

✨ WebSniffer on Trustpilot

From now on everyone can leave their honest feedback and rate the WebSniffer project on the Trustpilot platform at www.trustpilot.com/review/websniffer.com

🐛 Improving the page load speed

During the past two weeks the development team at WebSniffer fixed a few major bugs. One of them was the page load speed, which in some cases, could take up to 5 seconds until a page was fully loaded. Most of the pages at websniffer.com/ip/* were affected. Now each page takes less than 1 second to load.

🐛 Fixing a bug in analytics

Another bug that was fixed during the last two weeks was related to internal site analytics. With this improvement we now can better monitor the usage of the online WebSniffer service. It is especially important to prevent the usage of the service by malicious actors and spammers and should result in a more stable service operation for rest of its users.

✨ Rewriting WebSniffer

Aside from regular bug fixing and service improvements, our team is working hard on a complete revamp and rewrite of the WebSniffer service on a completely new technical platform. You’ll read more updates about our progress and achieved milestones in the following issues of this newsletter.

🗓️ Events

📅 Global Anti Scam Summit 2022
Date: 9-10 November 2022
Location: The Hague, Netherlands & Online

📰 News

Here are some interesting news from the Web, computer networks and cybersecurity fields that are worth sharing 👇

🗞️ GitHub flaw could have allowed attackers to takeover repositories of other users

A critical flaw in the cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub could’ve allowed attackers to takeover other repositories.

🗞️ Bosses Say They’re Serious About Cybersecurity. It’s Time For Them To Prove It

Decisions in the C-suite are stifling businesses’ efforts to adequately defend themselves from cyber threats. While leaders absolutely want cybersecurity expertise on their teams, they’re not necessarily willing to pay for it.

🗞️ DNS security awareness enriches cybersecurity

TechHQ features an interesting article by James Tyrrell how DNS security can enrich network protection by adding frontline protection that can help to fight malware.

🗞️ BGP Routing vs. DNS Routing

Devin Partida in her article compares both BGP routing and DNS routing protocols. How does each of them perform? Do any of them overlap? Is every routing protocol safe?

🗞️ OARC-39: Notes on the Recent DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Centre Workshop

Geoff Huston, Author & Chief Scientist at APNIC, is sharing his impressions of the recently concluded OARC 39 workshop - an important discussion platform in the DNS world.

🗞️ Akamai detects 79M malicious domain names in first half of the year

New research from Akamai Technologies has found that about 20% of all new domain names registered, some 79 million, were registered for malicious purposes in the first half of the year 2022.

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Web, Computer Networks & Cybersecurity News

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