Collaborate Disseminate
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a major functional component of the modern Internet. We rely on it for just about everything! It’s responsible for translating human-friendly domain names into …read more Continue reading Will .IO Domain Names Survive A Geopolitical Rearrangement?
By Waqas
According to Fortinet Labs, third parties have already purchased top-level domains (TLD) such as Joomla.zip and MSNBC.zip, which could potentially be a breach of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA).
This is a post from HackRe… Continue reading FortiGuard Labs Discovers .ZIP Domains Fueling Phishing Attacks
By Sudais Asif
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine claims the data leak has…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloudflare suffered data leak; exposing 3 million IP addresses: Ukraine
Continue reading Cloudflare suffered data leak; exposing 3 million IP addresses: Ukraine
Earlier this week, domain name registrar Namecheap sent out an email to all customers advising them of a secret deal that went down between ICANN and Verisign sometime late last year. It has the potential to change the prices of domain names drastically over time, and thus change the makeup …read more
The street outside ICAAN’s offices in Playa Vista, California, is likely a little more crowded than normal. Continue reading Protestors petition equity firm over .org buyout
Data science and security research teams in the carrier organization at Akamai process massive volumes of DNS queries every day to detect and track malicious activity. The data is live-streamed from DNS resolvers deployed in diverse service provider ne… Continue reading A View into Top Level Domain (TLD) Abuse
Data science and security research teams in the carrier organization at Akamai process massive volumes of DNS queries every day to detect and track malicious activity. The data is live-streamed from DNS resolvers deployed in diverse service provider networks in… Continue reading A View into Top Level Domain (TLD) Abuse
via CircleID, comes a particularly relevant discussion regarding the most abused TLDs (as researched by the Spamhaus Project) on our interwebs. Additionally, read the eponymous Brian Krebs’ latest take on the subject, you’ll be glad you did.
Security researcher Brian Krebs has revealed some interesting details in terms of some of the riskiest domains on the Internet. Apparently, websites ending with some of the latest TLDs (top-level domains) such as .men, .work and .click are considered h… Continue reading Top 10 Most Abused Top-Level Domains in 2018
Millions of new sites registered under each TLD will now have HTTPS enforced Continue reading Google makes encryption mandatory for sites on 45 Top-Level Domains