Using an LLM for assurance (WP2SHELL)

What better way to test than to eat ones own dogfood right! This site runs WordPress, it is fronted by Cloudflare, has wordfence and has automatic patching enabled (the default) in WordPress. So what better example to show that we can use an LLM + LLM created scripts to conduct assurance activities. This is mixing deterministic and non deterministic technologies to test and then assess.

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The State of DNS Security — Where the Top…

A position snapshot of the full Majestic Million across three layers — DNSSEC signing, email authentication (SPF / DMARC / MTA-STS), and DANE. This is the scorecard: what is deployed, on how many domains, and how it’s distributed by rank and TLD. Remember Majestic Million is a bit old so a chunk of the domains no longer resolve, but the data gives a good thematic view.

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Email and Domain Security

Ok, this is a topic I’ve looked at for years, my views have been built up based on a range of things from the theory, the reality of what I find/see and the incidents I respond to and hear about.

I’ve used Claude largely for this because it’s meant as a quick snapshot in time and a high level thematic view. SPF, DMARC, MTA-STS and DNSSEC (and DNS/Domain management in general) are complex topics and there’s lots of nuance in things.

That said, who wants to see what ‘scanning’ 1 million domains looks like? Let’s take a look at what Claude has come up with:

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