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Is Your Intranet Vulnerable to Attacks? Investigating Intranet Impersonation in the DNS

On 10 February 2023, Reddit announced it suffered a security incident where a phishing campaign led an employee to a website that imitated the network's intranet gateway. more

WHOIS Database Download Services in Theory and Practice

Let's start this post on WHOIS database download services with a story. Meet James, a businessman who has just taken an important step in developing the digital presence for his small business by registering a domain name. more

NeuStar Goes to Bat for Louisville Slugger Online

Hillerich and Bradsby, maker of the famous Louisville Slugger™ baseball bat, has selected NueStar's Ultra Services Managed DNS service to protect their e-commerce business and allow for the efficient management of their network. more

Resilient Cybersecurity: Dealing with On-Premise, Cloud-Based and Hybrid Security Complexities

Having a tightly integrated security framework is more critical than ever as cyber-attacks grow and enterprises employ a variety of on-premise and cloud-based computing services to deliver applications. more

DHL Was the Most-Phished Company in 2021, Will That Be True in 2022, Too?

Checkpoint researchers identified DHL as the most-imitated brand in phishing campaigns at the end of 2021. We sought to find if that will remain the case this year by looking at various intelligence sources. more

A Glimpse of Big Telcos’ Domains and Subdomains Footprints

Telecommunications companies are a favored cyberattack target. After all, telcos build, control, and operate critical infrastructure that almost everyone uses to communicate. They also store large amounts of sensitive data that could easily be exploited when falling into the wrong hands. more

Optimus Selects NeuStar to Bring Converged Instant Messaging Services to Portugal

NeuStar has announced that Portuguese mobile operator Optimus has selected NeuStar's Next Generation Messaging (NGM) services to power Optimus' multi-community converged instant messaging (IM) service and new IP-based services. more

What a WHOIS Registrant Lookup Can Tell about “Kanye West” Newly Registered Domains

Kanye West trended after he announced his plan to run for U.S. president on 4 July 2020. On Twitter, his announcement was liked over 1.1 million times and retweeted more than 500,000 times. Elon Musk was also quick to express his support. more

The IT & Tech Industry Badly Needs Female Reinforcement

Across the globe, just one quarter of IT & tech specialists are women, and in Europe, the proportion is even lower at 18.5 percent. At the age of 15, ten times more boys than girls have an interest in becoming tech professionals. more

The Domain Business: A Lot Has Happened in 10 Years

As Neustar celebrates its 10-year corporate anniversary, it seems a good time to take stock of where we are within the dynamic Internet industry. Change and growth have been constants in the domain business, and we've even had to survive a pretty challenging recession. more

WhoisXML API Expands DNS Database Coverage and Adds New Record Type

AAAA and PTR records were added to WhoisXML API's DNS Database Download's existing pool of six DNS record types (i.e., A, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME, and SOA records). All these records are now updated daily, making the database more up-to-date and relevant in supporting security processes. more

NeuStar’s UltraDNS to Power NASDAQ Dubai

NeuStar, Inc. today announced that NASDAQ Dubai, the international stock exchange between Western Europe and East Asia, has selected NeuStar's UltraDNS Managed Services to enhance the security and performance of NASDAQ Dubai's platform. more

Afilias Increases DNS Security in Latin America and the Caribbean with Deployment of DNSSEC

Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for five country code Top-Level-Domains (ccTLDs) in Latin America and the Caribbean region. more

.PW Crosses 50,000 Domain Registrations in 3 Weeks

The .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as "the Professional Web", was available for General registrations from March 25, 2013 with a strong distribution channel of 120+ ICANN Registrars. more

2022 Olympic Winter Games: Prime Ground for Phishing Lures?

Threat actors have notoriously taken advantage of the Olympic Games's popularity to launch malicious campaigns. The "OlympicDestroyer" malware was most notable, using a domain related to the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. But the COVID -- 19 bubble in the 2022 Olympic Winter Games may have increased the danger. more