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Domain: (1) In a LAN, a subnetwork made up of a group of clients and servers under the control of one security database. Dividing LANs into domains improves performance and...; Full Domain Definition >>

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'.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address. At its meeting in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that...; Tags: Web, ICANN, Domain, Suffix, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Marguerite Reardon, domain names, cybersquatter; News items 2008-06-27
ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group: ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking groupWindows is to blameI hear that the Internet is basically run on Windows servers so it is hardly surprising that this happened. If ICANN would only switch to OS X I'm sure that no hacker would ever be able to break in.As...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Domain names, ICANN, IANA, hacking group, Turkish, hacker, hacking, IP, domain; Discussion threads 2008-06-26
ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group: What happens when the official domain names of the organizations that issue the domain names in general, and provide all the practical guidance on how the prevent DNS hijacking, end up having their own domain names hijacked? A wake up call for the Internet community. The official...; Tags: Hacking, DNS, ICANN, Domain, Domain Name, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Domain Names, Internet, Networking, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-06-26
ICANN warning against registrar impersonation phishing attacks: How realistic is an attack that successfully hijacks a domain by social engineering the domain's registrar? Pretty realistic according to ICANN's recently released advisory on preventing Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks : In this Advisory, SSAC describes generic forms of this type of attack. We consider types and formats of...; Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, Social Engineering, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-28
Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN: In a reponse to the recently released cluster analysis of the top 10 worst domain registrars in terms of spam and junk content hosting domains, the ICANN has taken steps to approach the non-compliant registrars : More than half of those registrars named had already been contacted by ICANN...; Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, Domain Name, Domain Names, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-26

ICANN rejects .xxx domain registry: ICANN rejects .xxx domain registryI don't really understand this...This is probably one of the primary things that would help parents protect their children (so the government can stop doing it for us, and screwing up in astonishingly stupid ways).XXX is out there. Deal with it. It will never,...; Tags: XXX, pornography industry, domain, ICANN; Discussion threads 2007-03-30
ICANN rejects .xxx domain: ICANN rejected the .xxx top-level domain yesterday under pressure from conservative groups and the Internet porn industry, AP reports. ICANN had postponed making a final decision in August after the U.S. government stepped in just days before a scheduled meeting to underscore objections it had received, an intervention that...; Tags: domain, ICANN; Blog posts 2006-05-11
Millions for Verisign, ICANN in domain deal: Here's the ICANN/Verisign deal, as reported by Declan McCullaugh on News.com today. Under a settlement agreement arising out of the SiteFinder dispute between the two groups, Verisign will be able to raise .com domain rates 7% a year - far above the inflation rate. Declan calculates that at the current...; Tags: ICANN; Blog posts 2006-03-01
Price hikes for .com could be curbed: Price hikes for .com could be curbedSo .com domains cost $60 minimum now?"In addition, it poses a tentative requirement, absent in the original settlement, that VeriSign operate a centralized "Whois" directory for .com registrants--though only if ICANN determines that doing so is "reasonably feasible."'So basically, Verisign can see who is...; Tags: SECURITY, ICANN, VeriSign Inc., domain; Discussion threads 2006-01-31
ICANN told to clamp down on dodgy domain names: ICANN told to clamp down on dodgy domain namesIt gives me warm *fuzzies*knowing how secure everything is after these few years we have spent without the towers. After the realization of how prevalent ID theft is and how vulnerable or software industry is overall. I would like...; Tags: Domain names, ICANN, domain, domain name, registrar, Whois; Discussion threads 2005-12-07
Dutch tech firm wants to rid the Web of the .com: Dutch tech firm wants to rid the Web of the .comFirst Turkey, then the world!Come on. Who is really going to buy into this. ICANN does a fine job.Who get's a piece of the PieIt's nice to have competion in the virtual world, but now we have 3 parties fighting...; Tags: Domain names, Web, ICANN, domain, anti-ICANN, tech firm; Discussion threads 2005-11-28
Senator: Keep U.N. away from the Internet: Senator: Keep U.N. away from the InternetMessage has been deleted.Yes The Internet Should Not Be Managed by the UN, and Neither by the US!For a president that was preaching smaller government, etc he sure is doing the complete opposite. The ICANN was doing fine, UNTIL the current administration could...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet, ICANN, domain, Cuba, indy; Discussion threads 2005-10-18
Vote on .xxx pushed back a month: Vote on .xxx pushed back a monthI call on all slavers to release their captives...... and upon all pornographers to renounce their shameless profiteering from silly pictures offered to the dim-witted. If there is a moral judge anywhere in the universe, I call upon him/her/it to look upon my nation's...; Tags: Government, top level domain, American Civil Liberties Union, domain, ICANN; Discussion threads 2005-08-16

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|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit: [Updated 07/24/2008: Gallery images of diffs of code revisions has been included and will be updated as things change, see here.] Earlier today, noted researchers |)ruid and HD Moore released exploit code for the Metasploit tool for attacking the DNS flaw that was originally reported by Dan...; Tags: DNS, Domain, Server, Entry, Exploit, NS, NS Record, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Attack code published for DNS flaw: The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....; Tags: Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-23
iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws: Security researcher Aviv Raff left has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks. According to an advisory from Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are susceptible to a URL Spoofing vulnerability which...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Spamming, Flaw, Aviv Raff, Phishing, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-23
How to lose customers by not even trying: How to lose customers by not even tryingSpot onThere is nothing more infuriating than trying to use a site that has been designed for a single specific browser that isn't yours.I truly appreciate how difficult it can be to get sites working consistently across all browsers. But it is surely...; Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Web browsers, Hertz Corp., Web site, Web browser; Discussion threads 2008-07-23
75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws: In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...; Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers: From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...; Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?: Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?Good Lord!Whatever does happen, this has been fun to read about.in summaryHalvar's approach is to play a game in which you win with a low probability. If you are able to win the race with the authoritative server and guess one TXID, you...; Tags: Games, Domain names, Halvar, TXID, game, DNS; Discussion threads 2008-07-21