Industry

Domain Registrar Selection: A Key Indicator of Overall Organization Security

This week, CSC and SecurityScorecard - the global leader in cyber security ratings for enterprise organizations - released an important piece of research in a whitepaper that shows a company's choice of domain registrar really does matter when it comes to cyber security. more

Radix’s Uncontested .host gTLD Passes ICANN’s Initial Evaluation, Set to Go Live in January 2014

Radix Registry has announced that its bid for the operation of the generic top level domain (gTLD) .host has passed the initial evaluation stage in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) new gTLD program. more

How SIEM Vendors Can Reduce False Positives from Their Products

Organizations operating a security information and event management (SIEM) solution are struggling with one of the biggest problems in cybersecurity today: false positives. more

Radix & WHMCS Offer Free .HOST Domains to All WHMCS Customers

Leading Web Hosting Billing and Automation provider WHMCS, announced today that its partnership with the .HOST domain registry (Radix) has received an impressive response within the first week of launch. more

NeuStar’s UltraDNS to Power Growth of NDTV Convergence

NeuStar, Inc. has announced that NDTV Convergence, the digital arm of New Delhi Television (NDTV), India's largest news and infotainment network, has chosen NeuStar's UltraDNS Managed DNS Service to bolster the scalability of its online properties. more

Online Shopping Danger? 13K+ Cybersquatting Properties of Top E-Commerce Sites Discovered

AliExpress is among the most visited business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce sites globally, with millions of visitors daily. Therefore, a recent cybersquatting campaign targeting the platform could lure many victims into buying counterfeit products, divulging their login credentials, downloading malware, and many other actions that could jeopardize their data and devices. more

Tracing Connections to Rogue Software Spread through Google Search Ads

Taking control of victims' accounts is typically the end goal of many cybercriminals, and they never cease to come up with wily ways to do so. Bleeping Computer researchers recently spotted hackers spreading malware mayhem through Google search ads supposedly pointing to open-source software download sites. more

Afilias Releases 160,000+ Names Across 8 New TLDs

Previously reserved "ICANN collision" names now available to public. Couldn't register for great names like caribbean.blue, bake.organic, or planet.red? Now you can! more

Come April, Nothing Is Certain Except Phishing and Taxes

In the past years, threat actors have made it a point to prey on U.S. taxpayers using phishing emails supposedly from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The goal is often to trick victims into giving their login credentials to various platforms. This year is no different. more

Global Domain Name Registrations Reach 329.3 Million, 2.3 Million Growth in Last Quarter of 2016

Verisign today released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the global domain name registrations grew by 2.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2016, and closed with a base of 329.3 million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs) -- a 6.8 percent increase, year over year. more

Hybrid Cloud Proves Clouds Are Worthy of Email Infrastructure

With the cloud, senders no longer need to plan for and procure MTAs and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly access hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deploy massive amounts of emails faster than ever. more

We Don’t Want to Spoil Mother’s Day but These Domains Might

We're supposed to spoil our mothers on Mothers' Day, but with various scams out there, you may end up losing money or with a malware-infected device. WhoisXML API researchers found more than a thousand digital properties that could be used in Mothers' Day scams. more

Neustar Releases UltraDNS Report Center

Neustar, Inc. today announced the debut of its UltraDNS Report Center. The new reporting tool identifies configuration issues, assesses the impact of changes, monitors resolution performance and isolates traffic problems across an entire DNS infrastructure. more

Another Tech Leader Joins .tech

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) which produces the world's largest annual innovation event, is now using www.cta.tech as its primary domain. more

What Is the Current State of Malicious PPI Businesses and Affiliate Networks?

Pay-per-install (PPI) businesses and affiliate networks made for a booming cybercriminal underground market from 2008 to 2013. Buoyed by the proliferation of fake antivirus (FakeAV) peddlers, operators made staggering profits from the sale of rogue security software.
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