Internet security researchers and news outlets are sounding the alarm this week, noting that a far-reaching malvertising campaign, known as “Tag Barnakle”, has compromised more than 120 ad-servers in the past year. The breach, first discovered and reported in April of 2020, allows the hacker group to insert malicious [...]
DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS: understanding the associated security, visibility, and internet freedom implications As more service providers and enterprises seek to address DNS-related security vulnerabilities, the debate between how to encrypt DNS traffic - and the consequential security implications of different encryption methods - is gaining traction. [...]
DNS Remains a Critical Focus Area for Security Professionals San Mateo, October 25 – NetSTAR has partnered with a leading, global cyber intelligence data firm to enhance their insights around DNS as a threat vector. Leveraging key internet traffic data collected by this company, NetSTAR has increased their visibility into [...]
inCompass® 4th GENERATION WEB-FILTERING SDK AND CLOUD SERVICES PROVIDES REAL-TIME PROTECTION AGAINST ANONYMOUS PROXY USE San Mateo, CA. – October 27, 2014 – NetSTAR, Inc., announced an enhancement to their NetSTAR inCompass® SDK and Cloud services with enhanced anonymous proxy detection through real-time detection of anonymous proxy sites. OEM partners [...]
Although the role of the lowly URL has really grown over the past few years, some things never change. At first, it was just basic web static content coming over on port 80, then it was encrypted static content on port 443. But now virtually everything from static to dynamic [...]
GLOBAL COVERAGE, HIGH QUALITY AND ACCURATE GLOBAL CATEGORIZATION AND REPUTATION SCORING ARE KEY TO THE inCompass® OEM URL FILTERING SOLUTION San Mateo, CA. – April 5, 2014 – NetSTAR, Inc., an ALPS System Integration Company (ALSI) group company and a global leader in secure web categorization and content filtering technology, [...]