Recommended hosts file blocklist ?

[gadget42]

I didn't want to start a new thread and via a forum "cloudflare" search it looks like this thread is _where_ I have been parking these _of-interest-to-some_ articles relating to blocking/dns-resolvers/hosts-lists/pi-hole/etc.

Cloudflare Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
https://blog.cloudflare.com/thanksgiving-2023-security-incident

snippet:

On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2023, Cloudflare detected a threat actor on our self-hosted Atlassian server. Our security team immediately began an investigation, cut off the threat actor’s access, and on Sunday, November 26, we brought in CrowdStrike’s Forensic team to perform their own independent analysis.

also perhaps of interest given the preceeding commentary I also enjoy the many fascinating articles in Feisty Duck’s Cryptography & Security Newsletter

https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_109_cab_forum_adopts_caa_for_s_mime

for the hardware geeks/nerds(from the above newsletter issue):
https://www.sevnx.com/blog/post/building-a-password-cracker

[gadget42]

another(more recent) cloudflare commentary regarding a rather large ddos

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-auto-mitigated-world-record-3-8-tbps-ddos-attack/