Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours
Getting a basic certificate issued is incredibly easy these days. If you own the DNS resolution, you can get a cert.<p>Here a few ways I can think of to make this harder for an attacker:<p>* Add a Strict-Transport-Security to all HTTPS requests. This means the attacker will need to get a valid cert (still easy if you can hijack BGP).<p>* Pick a preferred SSL issuer and stick with them. Add a CAA DNS record only allowing that one issuer.<p>* Go through the EV SSL process with your preferred issuer. Now modify your CAA DNS record to add an EV policy. This should make it very difficult for an attacker to get a cert issued during a BGP hijack.<p>* DNSSEC? Make sure to choose an SSL issuer that will correctly test DNSSEC?