Domijn: The Security of Domain Registrars and the Risk of a Domain Name Takeover

Domain names are key assets for organisation. They anchor an organisation's online presence and reputation, and serve as linking pin for web services and, e.g., email. Consequently, a malicious takeover of a domain can lead to significant damages. Organisations register domain names through...

WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo.com, a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to...

Leading Web Domain Name Registrars Disclose Data Breach

Another day, another massive data breach—this time affecting a leading web technology company, as well as both of its subsidiaries, from where millions of customers around the world have purchased domain names for their websites. The world's top domain registrars Web.com, Network Solutions, and...

Leading Web Domain Name Registrars Disclose Data Breach

Another day, another massive data breach—this time affecting a leading web technology company, as well as both of its subsidiaries, from where millions of customers around the world have purchased domain names for their websites. The world's top domain registrars Web.com, Network Solutions, and...

Mobile WireX DDoS Botnet 'Neutralized' by Collaboration of Competitors

A collaboration between leading content delivery networks and technology companies—some of them competitors—is in the midst of shutting down the largest botnet of mobile devices ever recorded. The WireX botnet was detected on Aug. 17 after businesses in a number industries, most notably...

FBI: Business Email Compromise Scams Steal $214m in 2014

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 is sounding the alarm on a type of fraud they are calling business email compromise BEC scams. The scheme, formerly known as a man-in-the-email attack, comes in three distinct flavors, each of which is ultimately designed to dupe corporate employees o...

Cautious Optimism over Google DNSSEC Deployment

Google’s announcement that its Google Public DNS resolution service now supports DNSSEC is being applauded, but experts caution that despite Google’s high profile, this only puts a slight dent in a larger issue. “I think it’s great that Google is getting involved and supporting validation for...

ICANN Appointee: A Focus on Security

This week’s news that former National Cyber Security Center Director Rod Beckstrom was named as the newest president of ICANN – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Net’s most influential governing body – is a very encouraging sign that we’re living in an era when issues o...