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- Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN
- Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANNRE: Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANNWith the title of your article I was expecting you to name names...garyRE: Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANNWell, the links and the details of the registrars are within the first sentence of...
- Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, spam registrar, Top-Ten, ICANN
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
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- Overall spam volume unaffected by 3FN/Pricewert's ISP shutdown
- Following last week's shutdown of 3FN/Pricewert's operations by the FTC, wishful thinkers expected a major decline in the overall spam volume, with botnet masters once again caught off guard just like it happened in November, 2008 with McColo's shutdown. However, according to numerous vendors that doesn't seem...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Malware, FTC, Spam Volume, 3FN/Pricewert, Marshal8e6, Rustock, Pricewert, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Business Security, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Business Operations, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Bad, bad, cybercrime-friendly ISPs!
- In a post-McColo, post-Atrivo and post-EstDomains cybercrime ecosystem, the researchers at FireEye have recently launched a "Bad Actors series" aiming to put the spotlight on some of the currently active badware actors online. The sampled ISPs represent safe heavens for drop zones for banker malware, DNSChanger malware, rogue security software...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Malware, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Spam and obscene profits
- Spam: Let’s Re-Define ‘Obscene Profits’ I took a great call today with Garth Bruen of Knujon (“No Junk†spelled backwards). Garth’s volunteer organization monitors spam and works with Internet registrars to throttle the miscreants who fill our in-boxes with this junk. Garth gave me a great background...
- Tags: Registrar, Spammer, Knujon, Garth, Go-Daddy, Internet, Spam, Domain Names, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains
- Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads
- Update: Dancho Danchev informed that this actually relates back to his article on from last week. Apparently I reposted with less information than the original, so I apologize to Dancho for that. Guess that's what I get for poking my nose into the malware realm. Dancho informed...
- Tags: Spammer, Video, Iran, Corporate Communications, Media Players, E-mail, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista
- Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks Techmeme: iPhone reviews Matthew Miller: MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, DNS, Online Privacy, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., HP iPAQ 910, 3G, Domain Names, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Can fighting registrars win the spam wars?
- Can fighting registrars win the spam wars?When is someone a registrar?When is someone a registrar? www.GoDaddy.com has a reseller program called Wild West Domains or something similar. For about $100 anyone can become a "registrar" through this program, with a website, etc., indicating the person is a registrar. ...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, registrar, GoDaddy
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Can fighting registrars win the spam wars?
- Shouldn't every registrar have at least a street address on file and freely available through ICANN? And shouldn't ICANN have a complete list of registrar addresses online? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Knujon, Hostgator, Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- 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
- Should you switch your biz to Google's e-mail domain hosting service? We did
- As the acting CIO of my own small business (Mass Events Labs, Inc.), I have to make real decisions regarding IT -- often weighing the pros and cons of one approach against those of other approaches -- and then having to live with those decisions. Mass Events Labs is an...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Tucows launches blog to reveal it acquired Kiko
- Tucows, a Canadian-based, publicly traded Internet services company, has launched a corporate blog; its first post reveals that it is the lucky eBay buyer of Kiko, the defunct online calendar start-up.Tucows describes its business model:provides Internet services and download libraries through a global distribution network of 6,000 service providers. This...
- Tags: Kiko, TUCOWS
- Blog posts 2006-09-05
- Whois data a key weapon in fraud fight, FTC says
- Whois data a key weapon in fraud fight, FTC saysUsing whois data will destroy accuracyUsing whois data by law enforcement will do nothing to stop "wrongdoers"... it will only encourage them to forge their whois data. Nobody checks the data submitted for accuracy or legitimacy. In fact, many companies, both...
- Tags: FTC, Whois
- Discussion threads 2006-06-27
- 180solutions sponsors Yapbrowser and... child porn?
- My head is swimming and I feel ill. I just read the blogs about 180solutions' latest -- Yapbrowser, installed from 180's servers no less, that directs all search requests to child porn sites. And this from a company that has made countless claims of cleaning up their act....
- Tags: Yapbrowser
- Blog posts 2006-04-17
- Google click fraud plaintiff gets 'cold feet'
- Google click fraud plaintiff gets 'cold feet'AIT is an Unscrupulous CompanyI find it laughable that a company like Advanced Internet Technologies is concerned about fraud! Take a look at http://www.aitsucks.com to see the kind of shady business practices that THEY are involved in against their own customers.Clarence Briggs ,...
- Tags: Litigation, Google click fraud plaintiff, Google Inc., click fraud, cold calling, Clarence Briggs, Goudy, AIT, Fayetteville Observer Newspaper
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- 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
- Sender ID's fading message
- Sender ID's fading messageWorthless?"About 84 percent of those authenticated messages were spam". We've calculated that closer to 90% of the SenderID, SPF authenticated messages we receive is Spam - but let's say it is 84%. So authentication alone is worthless."If we can get to a place where a...
- Tags: E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Sender ID, SPF, SenderID
- Discussion threads 2005-08-09
- The missing glue in the fight against malware
- The missing glue in the fight against malwareSome great points and two argumentsOK, great analysis of the state of malware defense. But a few counter arguments:On the matter of cookies for instance. There is a P3P standard that cookie publishers use to self validate that they meet several levels...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Firewalls, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Market Forces, malware, database, software, firewall
- Discussion threads 2005-05-09
- VeriSign sues ICANN to restore Site Finder
- VeriSign sues ICANN to restore Site FinderIf Sitefinder goes back up then Verisign should be suedAnd why not? If I type in www.acmeanvels.com and I get redirected to Sitefinder, I'm liable to become confused and order my anvil from another manufacturer. Won't that tick off Acme Anvil Co.?If...
- Tags: SECURITY, ICANN, VeriSign Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-02-26
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