nicos.tips

Tag: security

  • SSL/TLS Certificates Can Be Public

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    Nico
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    If you read my first post on this topic, Well, hello there., then you know I was trying to figure out how random hosts were finding my brand-new domain names that nobody knew about. I would see traffic hitting the web servers within minutes of the server spinning up. Then I thought I had figured…

  • The lists are out there.

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    Nico
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    If you read my last post “Well, hello there.“, you probably already knew I was curious where that traffic was coming from and couldn’t just let it go. Finally figured it out today. It’s ICANN’s Centralized Zone Data Service. That’s where people are getting a listing of all the domains registered under many of the…

  • Well, hello there.

    Well, hello there.

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    Nico
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    I find it interesting that within a couple of days of my registering this domain name (nicos.tips) and changing the DNS records over to Cloudflare, Cloudflare was recording quite a bit of unexpected traffic.