Krebs on Security personal blog

Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years

The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to…
Points
1,007
HN comments
249
Submissions
1
Cited by
0 commenters

Security & Privacy2025

On Hacker News

SubmittedTitle on HNPointsComments
Jan 22, 2025Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years by todsacerdoti1,007249

More from Krebs on Security

All 267 posts →

Related posts from the same era