SecurityTrails Blog
New Feature: Explore for SurfaceBrowser™
Exploring any companies’ public footprint & finding shadow infrastructure.
WHOIS History: The Importance of WHOIS Records in the Infosec Industry
Domain names are collectively one of the most essential components of the Internet. Without them we wouldn’t be able to send an email, connect to social networks and of course, browse any web pages available on the net.
lnkr: The New Malicious Browser Extensions Campaign Spreading Across the Net
In 1995, Netscape, with its classic NPAPI technology, became the first browser to support extensions. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera did the same a few years later, between 1999 and 2009.
New SecurityTrails API integration with R programming language
Since our beginning, we always believed that a good API service was fundamental to offer the best possible solution for developers and entrepreneurs.
Product Update: SurfaceBrowser and Stats
Today, we’re presenting a series of updates to SurfaceBrowser™ product and the free tools on SecurityTrails.
Analyzing SSL Certificates with SurfaceBrowser
SSL certificates have been in use for decades, but in recent years we’ve seen a tremendous boost in SSL orders from all the major providers. Nowadays, SSL certificates play a critical role in the cybersecurity industry.
DNS Flag Day: What It Is and How It Affects You
DNS Flag day is almost here. That’s why we decided to write about this important event, what EDNS is, the current problem with old broken DNS servers, and finally, we ran a massive EDNS test revealing that around 3.7 % of the top 100k websites ranked in Alexa will be down soon.
Domain Theft: How to Avoid Buying Stolen Domain Names and Protect Your Own Domains
Previously we shared some interesting tips about domain hijacking, where we discussed a few concepts, information and tips to prevent this kind of malicious activity against your domain names. Domain stealing, also known as domain theft, is a common criminal activity on the Internet. It consists in transferring your domain name illegally to another registrar, without you knowing about it.
SecurityTrails Engineering: Major Updates to our Domain Discovery Pipeline
We’ve made major engineering advancements in the process of locating domains that are normally hard to obtain. We’ve developed an autonomous system that allows us to process 10s of TBs of data daily, to find domains and subdomains from numerous sources, verify them and then add all those domains to our database.
OpSec: A Vital Part of Any Cybersecurity Program
We all have something to hide. Even though humans are social beings, there are some things we want to keep to ourselves, and it’s been like that since the beginning of humankind.