Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click

Web site names ending in new top-level domains (TLDs) like .men, .work and .click are some of the riskiest and spammy-est on the Internet, according to experts who track such concentrations of badness online. Not that there still aren’t a whole mess of nasty .com, .net and .biz domains out there, but relative to their size (i.e. overall number of domains) these newer TLDs are far dicier to visit than most online destinations. Continue reading Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click

Brad Antoniewicz, OpenDNS/BSides NYC – Paul’s Security Weekly #507

Brad Antoniewicz works in Cisco Umbrella’s security research group. He founded the NYC branch of Security BSides. Brad is also a contributing author to both the Hacking Exposed and Hacking Exposed: Wireless book series. Full Show Notes Subscribe to YouTube Channel Security Weekly Website Follow us on Twitter: @securityweekly http://traffic.libsyn.com/pauldotcom/Pauls_Security_Weekly__507_-_Brad_Antoniewicz_OpenDNS_BSides_NYC_converted.mp3 Continue reading Brad Antoniewicz, OpenDNS/BSides NYC – Paul’s Security Weekly #507

Threatpost News Wrap, June 24, 2016

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including a Bitcoin phishing campaign, the Kaspersky Lab ransomware report, misconfigured email servers, and a decline in Angler exploit kit traffic. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, June 24, 2016