Bad configurations, insecure versions of jQuery, and crummy cookies are some of myriad problems
Five Chinese researchers examined the configurations of nearly 14,000 government websites across the country and found worrying lapses that could lead to malicious attacks, according to a not-yet-peer-reviewed study released last week.the study as scrutinizing"the security and dependency challenges besieging China's governmental web infrastructure.
Another finding was a"notable dependence" on five DNS service providers – a lack of diversity that could open the network infrastructure to single points of failure. "Among the ISPs, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, and Alibaba Cloud occupy 98.29 percent of the market," found the team, which explained that"if one of the ISPs experiences a failure or attack, the entire network could be affected, causing widespread service outages."
"This discrepancy suggests that while specific DNS records may have been signed, such signatures might not be accurately represented in the whois database, or alternatively, the signing may be limited to certain subdomains rather than encompassing the entire domain," explained the authors.sites leak info about private IP addresses, which may reveal sensitive information about system architecture.
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