Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week.
GoDaddy had technical difficulties Tuesday evening that took down its entire network, including websites hosted on GoDaddy.
In 2008, researcher Dan Kaminsky revealed one of the more severe Internet security threats ever: a weakness in the domain name system that made it possible for attackers to send users en masse to imposter sites instead of the real ones belonging to Google, Bank of America, or anyone else.
The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the fundamental protocols of the Internet. It provides a lookup service that converts domain names (like google.com) into IP addresses (like 192.168.0.0).
ICANN’s founding promise and mandate are optimistic — ensure a stable and secure internet that benefits the internet community as a whole.
US security researcher Zach Edwards recently tweeted about finding 250 company website names that had been taken over by cybercriminals.
Over 2000 new phishing domains have been set up over the past month to capitalize on the surging demand for Zoom from home workers. Zoom could solve this if they owned their own Brand Top Level Domain .ZOOM
Business Email Compromises (BEC) threats continue at a cost level of almost $10B per year. Time to set email security policies on all your domains with at least DMARC and SPF. Set it and monitor for compliance. Keep your company and customers safe.