Collaborate Disseminate
The owner of State Snaps hired his cousin to break into the home of the owner of DoItForState.com to force him to transfer the domain. Continue reading Gunpoint domain hijack turns out to have been a family affair
Setting cookies on domains that have multiple subdomains can pose security risks if it is implemented incorrectly. An attacker who gains access to a particular domain can conduct a session fixation attack and hijack users’ sessions on its subdoma… Continue reading Separating Subdomains From Third-Party Hosted WWW Domains
A missed space created a hyperlink in Giuliani’s tweet about the G-20 summit, which someone quickly took advantage of. Continue reading Trump’s Cybersecurity Advisor Rudy Giuliani Thinks His Twitter Was Hacked Because Someone Took Advantage of His Typo
The Republican party has apparently created a series of domains to discredit and attack former FBI director James Comey. Meanwhile, Democratic party sympathizers appear to have created similar domains to counter the Republicans’ anti-Comey campaign. Continue reading Evidence Suggests the GOP Bought at Least 17 Anti-James Comey Domains
A squatter bought it and owned it for a month Continue reading Dell forgot to renew the domain it uses for PC backups
If only they’d hit auto-renew Continue reading How forgetting to renew a domain name cost $3m
Instagram appears to have spent the long weekend buying up internet domains that hackers might try to use to sell contact information stolen last week from as many as 6 million of the social media app’s 700 million user accounts. A company spokeswoman declined to comment Tuesday to CyberScoop about a news report over the weekend that Instagram, through brand reputation management outfit Mark Monitor, had been buying up hundreds of web domains using the word “Doxagram.” That’s the name of the website first used by hackers to sell for $10 a pop the stolen data scraped from Instagram through a security flaw in an application programming interface or API. Last week, the hackers were kicked off Doxagram.com and two other sites they subsequently migrated to. Over the weekend the appeared to find a home on the dark web, where the Tor service bounces encrypted traffic around the internet to disguise its origin and destination. The […]
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The domain’s owner says he can make an impact with an “ethical shopping companion.” Continue reading The Owner of FuckFascism.com Is Leasing the Domain to Fund His Startup
Alliteration aside, Netcraft has found and blocked the first phishing site to be hosted on the homepage of a .fish generic top-level domain (gTLD). While a few phishing sites have been found using the .fish and .fishing gTLDs before, parser.fish became the first to host malicious phishing content directly on its homepage. Fraudsters lured unsuspecting […] Continue reading First fishy phishing sites sighted
The btc-e.com domain – previously operated by the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange – has barely been online since being seized by the US authorities on 28 July. Since being seized, the btc-e.com domain has pointed to a different web server, hosted by 1&1 Internet in the United States. It now displays nothing more than a customary […] Continue reading BTC-e: Better hosting than the Feds