| News Briefs U.S. Military to Spend $4.4M on Network Monitoring Upgrades in Wake of Sophisticated Cyber Attacks
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Russian Cyber Attack on Georgia, Government Websites Down or Replaced With Fakes
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Majority of Active Malware Attacks Go Undetected, Says New Report
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Secret Arial Balloon Used During Defcon Finds 1/3 of Wireless Networks Unsecured
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Blocking or Metering Broadband Access is a False Choice, Says New Report
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Meet the Feds: Recruiting Hackers
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Cyber Security Commission Compiling Recommendations for the Next U.S. Presidency
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ICANN Highlights DNS Vulnerability, Releases Domain Testing Tool
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Daily Search Engine Usage Reaching Email Usage
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Day 30: Kaminsky DNS Bug Disclosure
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Internet Companies in Negotiations for Agreement on Code of Conduct in China
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Fury Over Dell Seeking "Cloud Computing" Trademark
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AT&T Joins Cloud Computing Bandwagon, Will Host U.S. Olympic Committee Website
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Consumer Reports: U.S. Consumers Lost Nearly $8.5 Billion to Viruses, Spyware, and Phishing
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Featured Blogs Domain Name Lessons From iTunes
What do iTunes and a cooperative domain-name Intellectual Property (IP) regime have in common? They are market solutions to illegal activity: free downloading of music and free use of brands in domain names, respectively. The music industry tried to fight the free downloading of trademark-protected music by taking legal action against free downloaders under the pretext that their activity siphons industry revenue... more »
Aug 11, 2008 - by Alex Tajirian - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Law ICANN Paints Itself Into a Corner
ICANN recently commissioned a report from a domain auction company to see whether it would be a good idea to auction Top-Level Domains (TLDs) that have multiple applicants. Remarkably, the domain auctioneers came to the conclusion that auctions are a great idea, which they surely are for some people. But are they a good idea for ICANN? And if ICANN admits they can't evaluate competing applications on their merits, how can they keep the process from turning into another speculative land grab? more »
Aug 11, 2008 - by John Levine - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Domain Registries, Top-Level Domains Internet Attacks Against Georgian Websites
In the last days, news and government web sites in Georgia suffered DDoS attacks. While these attacks seem to affect the Georgian Internet, it is still there... Up to the Estonian war, such attacks would be called "hacker enthusiast attacks" or "cyber terrorism" (of the weak sort). Nowadays any attack with a political nature seems to get the "information warfare" tag. When 300 Lithuanian web sites were defaced last month, "cyber war" was the buzzword. Running security for the Israeli government Internet operation and later the Israeli government CERT such attacks were routine... more »
Aug 11, 2008 - by Gadi Evron - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cyberattack, Security CNN Spam Outbreak Quickly Morphing Into a New Breed
This past week we have been seeing some heavy CNN spam -- that is, spam in the form of breaking news stories from CNN.com... These all look like legitimate news stories, and indeed, they probably are taken straight from an actual CNN news bulletin (I don't subscribe so I wouldn't know). Indeed, the unsubscribe information and Terms of Use actually link to actual CNN unsubscribe pages. However, if you mouse-over all of the news links, they go to a spam web page wherein the payload is either a spam advertisement or you click on another link to download a file and flip your computer into a botnet. more »
Aug 10, 2008 - by Terry Zink - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Security, Spam ICANN to Auction New Generic Top Level Domains
ICANN has just published a paper from its contractor PowerAuctions LLC, regarding the use of auctions to award new Top Level Domains (TLD) strings in case of contention. I can understand what ICANN wants to avoid. In the past, it has been criticized for using the "beauty contest" model with the redelegation of the .net TLD... However, the auction model is based on the idea that whoever wins the auction will be able to recoup its investment on the sale... more »
Aug 09, 2008 - by Patrick Vande Walle - Comments: 2
Related Topics: Domain Names, Domain Registries, Top-Level Domains Phishers Backdooring Phishing Pages to Scam One Another
There seems to be no such thing as a free phishing page these days, with phishers scamming one another at an alarming rate according to a recently published research entitled "There is No Free Phish: An Analysis of "Free" and Live Phishing Kits". Cybercriminals attempting to scam other cybercriminals has been happening for years, with old school cases where backdoored malware tools such as crypters and binders are offered for free, or a newly released RAT whose client is in fact infected with a third-party malware... more »
Aug 08, 2008 - by Dancho Danchev - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Security ACLU, Anti-Spam Laws, and the First Amendment
In an article published by the Technology Liberation Front, Cato Institute adjunct scholar Tim Lee dissects a recent argument by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) regarding free speech & anti-spam laws. It's been interesting to watch the ACLU wrestle with anti-spam legislation. Their entire purpose is to work through the legal system to protect our civil rights, as defined in the First Amendment -- which is why I've been a card-carrying member since before I was old enough to vote... more »
Aug 08, 2008 - by J.D. Falk - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Law, Policy & Regulation, Spam Technologists vs. Marketers: Talking Incompatible Talk Leads to Walking in the Wrong Direction
As if conversations between technologists and marketers weren't already difficult enough, it appears that the Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) Email Experience Council wants to redefine long-standardized terms such as "header" and "message." more »
Aug 07, 2008 - by J.D. Falk - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Spam Can ICANN Manage the DNS Root Zone by Itself? "No!" Says US Department of Commerce
In a recent letter, the US Department of Commerce NTIA strongly denied being engaged in discussions about a "root zone transition" from VeriSign to ICANN. The community, ICANN President Strategic Committee (PSC), and perhaps ICANN and IANA staff are suddenly informed that no transition of root zone management is going to occur. What happened? With the touted ICANN transparency and accountability principles, why such a shift in (perceived) ICANN strategic directions coming from its overseeing government department? more »
Aug 07, 2008 - by Thierry Moreau - Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, Internet Governance If Thou Be'st as Poor for a Subject as He's for a King…
Way back in 1995, Wired reporter Simson Garfinkel gave Jeff Slaton the name "Spam King." Less than a year later, Sanford Wallace earned the title -- and soon had to share it (and his upstream provider) with Walt Rines. Others have come and gone; Sanford and Walt reappear every few years, together or separately, only to be sued away again... it seems as if any spammer noticed by law enforcement is immediately crowned "the Spam King," even when there are multiple such crownings happening at the same time. more »
Aug 07, 2008 - by J.D. Falk - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Law, Spam IPv6 Considered a Problem by Some Users
I have a Google Blog Search Alert looking for posts over IPv6 in my RSS reader. What strikes me is the number of posts explaining how to disable IPv6 in Windows Vista, MacOSX, Ubuntu and other flavours of Linux. It looks like disabling IPv6 makes web browsing faster for a lot of people, independently of which operating system is being used. more »
Aug 07, 2008 - by Patrick Vande Walle - Comments: 8
Related Topics: IPv6 Email Portability, DKIM, and Socio-Political Implications on Tech Development
A few years ago, cell phone portability was introduced in the United States which caused a major shift in the market. The same thing happened this past year in Israel, following a major battle involving the cell carriers, consumer groups and the Israeli parliament (The Knesset). What if the same happened with email addresses? Ridiculous, you say? May be so, but there is chatter here in Israel to create a law which forces the local service providers hands to do just that. more »
Aug 06, 2008 - by Gadi Evron - Comments: 4
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