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[Discuss] My Bank's Web Site is Behaving Oddly



On 05/04/2016 05:51 PM, John Hall wrote:
> Are you using your ISP's DNS ? Is it comcast?

Various. I did manual lookups on 8.8.8.8, but at home I run my own DNS, 
on my phone I get T-Mobile's, at Linode I must be using theirs.

So what is the difference between my bank using Incapsula to run its 
website, and someone spotting that a bank's domain is about to expire 
and setting up a middleman in hopes it will lapse, grabbing it if it 
does? If the certificate and the whois data make no mention of the bank, 
how do I know I am talking to the bank? Just trust that Incapsula was 
careful in vetting the account?

-kb, the Kent who finds it unnerving that his bank shares a cert with 
100-something other domains.




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