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Registrant: An individual or organization that signs up registers for a training class or service. See domain name registrar.; Full Registrant Definition >>

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Exclusive: Seattle man has registered "fakemarkzuckerberg.com": Is a "Secret Diary of Mark Zuckerberg" next?: Partially as a result of his debatable mea culpa about Beacon- following his weeks of silence on the issue- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hammered, trolled and informally psychoanalyzed by many bloggers. Including the handsome gent typing these consonants and vowels right...; Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Blog, Registrant, Blogging, Internet, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-12-06
SEC filing shows Google VoIP on the way: Sometimes, you can learn the most interesting things from monitoring the financial findings of companies in the VoIP space.Take for instance yesterday's Securities and Exchange Commission Form 8-K filing by Florida-based VoIP services provider VoIP, Inc.The filing is entitled "Entry Into A Material Definitive Agreement." Read thru this agreement and...; Tags: VoiceOne Communications, VoIP, Registrant; Blog posts 2006-01-31

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Online brand-jacking increasing: With the evolving sophistication of online scammers' understanding of social engineering and trust building online, the techniques they use to build authenticity into their scam propositions have started directly influencing a targeted brand's reputation online in the most negative way possible - the loss of a customer's trust into the...; Tags: Brand, Scammer, MarkMonitor, Phishing, Branding, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-06-03
How was Comcast.net hijacked?: It's official, even a pothead can social engineer Network Solutions. In an in-depth interview with the hijackers, featuring some screenshots showing they had access to the complete portfolio of over 200 domain names controlled by Comcast, the details of how they did it, and why they did it are now...; Tags: Network Solutions Inc., Comcast Corp., Social Engineering, Attack, Domain Registrar, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-30
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

Psystar mystery adds up to phishing scam: Walk through the Psystar fiasco with me. Many things are confusing. At a minimum, it's clear that the OpenMac is bogus. It's extremely dubious that Psystar is a legitimate company. It is increasingly likely that the whole thing is a phishing or credit-card scam. Item: The wandering...; Tags: Credit Card, Lawyer, Psystar, Address Thing, Powerpay, Sales Channel, Phishing, Financial Services, E-mail, Sales, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Attack of the clones: Psystar to battle Apple on EULA: Attack of the clones: Psystar to battle Apple on EULAMore than likely . . .They were a home business who built custom machines that decided that they were gonna need more room for production. Happens all the time.Our church has been in it's own building for 35 years,...; Tags: Operating systems, OSX, Sounds like Psystar, Apple OSX, Apple Inc., Psystar, EULA, hardware, clone, Apple Macintosh, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-04-15
Come and get it: $20K bounty on Microsoft vulnerabilities: Come and get it: $20K bounty on Microsoft vulnerabilitiesInfo About Them From WHOIS...Registrant: Contactprivacy.com 96 Mowat Ave Toronto, ON M6K 3M1 CA Domain name: DIGITALARMAMENTS.COM Administrative Contact: contactprivacy.com, digitalarmaments.com@contactprivacy.com 96 Mowat Ave Toronto, ON M6K 3M1 ...; Tags: Channel management, RSS, bounty, Mowat Ave Toronto, Microsoft Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Web; Discussion threads 2008-01-15
Exploits, security tools disappear as German anti-hacker law takes effect: Exploits, security tools disappear as German anti-hacker law takes effectWell, if you could prove that......hacking is another form of bearing arms, you might get their attention. Then again, I think the NRA General Council would rather be out target-shooting, duck hunting or selling guns anyways.NRA should be all over this...After...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, tool, hacking, security tool; Discussion threads 2007-08-13
Come and get it: Fedora laptop for $150: Come and get it: Fedora laptop for $150I sure as heck wouldThough I'd certainly look in the bargain bins for more memory and perhaps a bigger hard drive to plop in it. And I'm sure other less adventurous folk would add on an OEM copy of Vista or XP.Defintely: too...; Tags: Litigation, Notebooks, laptop computer, too-good-to-be-true, fraud, Fedora Project; Discussion threads 2007-07-25
Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn: Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty FawnInstall Mplayer or VLC instead ...It has built in codec support for Quicktime 7 files. There is also a graphical front end that's included. Mplayer will also allow you to capture network streams and do conversion with mencoder, but it's on the command line...; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Consumer electronics, Windows Media, Apple QuickTime, Ubuntu, VLC Player, mplayer, Automatix, Mplayer, DVD; Discussion threads 2007-06-20
AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blog: AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blogAACS is OWNEDAACS is OWNED or will be very soon. DRM is dying even before the format battle between BluRay and HD-DVD has begun. Hollywood has to start treating consumers with respect, not like an enemy.Viral campaign anybody?I think the better answer is...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, AACS, Doom9, digital-rights management, piracy, Cory Doctorow; Discussion threads 2007-05-01
Cisco/Apple: The dog that did not bark in the night: Last weeks article pointing out questions surrounding Ciscos ownership of the "iPhone" trademark generated a huge amount of interest. It was picked up by slashdot, digg, and even inspired an eBay auction of one of the iPhone stickers. As you can imagine Ive been inundated with feedback on this issue,...; Tags: declaration, Section 15, Section 8 Declaration; Blog posts 2007-01-16
Sony and the fake PSP blog: Have you seen Sonys latest attempt top get people buying PSPs? Its a fake blog called All I Want For Xmas is a PSP, run by the ad company ZIPATONI. It goes to show how low companies will go to try to push their products onto an evolving...; Tags: Nov 14, blog, Sony PlayStation Portable, Ad industry, Gaming; Blog posts 2006-12-12
Domain Informer (exe): Domain Informer is a user-friendly tool that checks whois information of a given domain name, making it possible to query any domain name directly from your desktop. It simply informs you whether the given domain name is available or not. If the domain name is not available, then it shows...; Tags: Whois, Domain Name, Domain Informer, Domain Names, Internet; Software downloads 2006-11-13
Google finally gets AdSense.com: After years of fielding Google questions, the owners of a Eugene, Oregon based company "AdSense Consulting" sold their domain to "someone other than Google". After reviewing the situation, it appears they probably sold the domain to MarkMonitor.If you subscribe to this blog, you already know what that means. MarkMonitor.com is...; Tags: AdSense Consulting, Google Inc., domain; Blog posts 2006-11-03
Jim Allchin's a'bloggin, pee on Microsoft's Vista bus, and three migration tools. The Vista full-court press begins: I've heard this sound before. It's the sound of Microsoft revving up its engines as it prepares to launch an all out marketing blitz for a new operating system. Here are three new items that crossed the transom in the last 24 hours.It appears as though Microsoft has launched a...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Jim Allchin; Blog posts 2006-10-27
Seltzer blows whistle on 'domain tasting' rat but serious questions remain: Seltzer blows whistle on 'domain tasting' rat but serious questions remainBlistersThey show up after all the work has been done and they hurt.Let's regulate someting worth regulatingOne second folks...Much like email, WHOIS queries are unencrypted (i.e. in readable cleartext) and they can be made to any WHOIS server... Any...; Tags: Phishing, Chesterton Holdings, domain, Whois; Discussion threads 2006-07-20
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hacked: Over the past few months I've become increasingly aware of the number of web sites being compromised and used for phishing and/or dropping malware. I expect the owners of the sites were unaware of what was going on. I've contacted ISPs and gotten a number of such sites shut...; Tags: Web server, server; Blog posts 2006-04-13
Best Practices: WHOIS Searching Issues and Time-Saving Tips: Domain names records are authoritative electronic records maintained by a domain name registrar (i.e. Iron Mountain, Network Solutions, GoDaddy) that contain registrant ("Owner") contact, name server and IP address information along with creation and expiration dates. All registrars of domain names in the generic Top-Level Domains gTLDs are required by...; Tags: Iron Mountain Inc., Whois, Domain Name, Best Practice, Domain Names, Internet; White papers 2006-03-07