Industry

IP Geolocation: Improving Data Loss Prevention in Virtual Environments through Geofencing

Each day, threat actors search for targets whose assets they can compromise for personal gain. Their attacks often use exploit kits that can find gaps in networks that they use to infiltrate and compromise vulnerable systems and applications. more

ARI Registry Asks ICANN to Delay Digital Archery and Batching Processes

ARI Registry has submitted a letter to ICANN today requesting its Board and staff to delay the launch of the digital archery batching mechanism and review of the new gTLD program for further review. "Batching was included in ICANN’s thinking because there were an unknown number of applications for new gTLDs... We suggest that, given the data that is publically available, these two objectives can be met without batching and without a significant or unreasonable impact on timelines." more

Best Attack Surface Monitoring Tools

A whopping 600 million cyberattacks every single day - that's what organizations face nowadays, according to the Microsoft Digital Defense Report. The sheer volume of threats, coupled with the expanding attack surfaces resulting from digital transformation, scaling, and other factors, has made attack surface monitoring a must even for organizations that were previously happy with a more traditional vulnerability management approach. more

Afilias Advises 40 Days Left Before ICANN’s Dot Brand Application Window Opens

In just 40 days -- January 12, 2012 -- a 92-day application window will open where businesses, for the first time, will be able to acquire and manage their own "dot Brand" Web extension. For example, "news.pepsi" instead of "pepsi.com/news." more

New .PET Domain Available to the Public

Afilias today announced public availability for the new "dot PET" or .PET top level domain. In the US alone, the pet industry in 2015 had sales of $61 billion dollars. more

Decoy Dog, Too Sly to Leave DNS Traces?

Decoy Dog, a malware renowned for abusing the DNS, specifically by establishing command and control (C&C) via DNS queries, first reared its head most likely in early 2022. Given its sly nature, the DNS malware has been used to successfully steal data from organizations throughout Russia and other Eastern European nations. more

Are There More Properties Connected to the Pareto Botnet?

The Pareto botnet, known for using almost a million infected Android devices to spoof people seemingly watching ads on smart TVs, was reportedly taken down recently through the collaboration of industry players, notably Roku and Google. more

Boosting Domain Protection Strategies with Typosquatting Domain Intelligence

An enterprise's domain portfolio continues to change as it offers new products and services or withdraw old ones. Mergers, acquisitions, and buyouts would also affect its domain portfolio. Constant monitoring of one's domain portfolio and its related infrastructure is crucial in today's cybersecurity landscape. more

Computerworld Names Afilias’ Ram Mohan a Premier 100 Technology Leader

IDG's Computerworld announces Ram Mohan, Afilias' executive vice president and chief technology officer, as a 2016 Premier 100 Technology Leaders honoree. This year's Premier 100 spotlights 100 leaders of companies for their exceptional technology leadership and innovative approaches to business challenges. more

Third-Party Vendor Risk Management: A Look into Top Couriers’ Digital Footprint

Just as no man is an island, no company can perform core functions without other organizations' help. This fact is highlighted in today's age of outsourcing, partnership, and third-party connections. Unfortunately, threat actors have also found a massive opportunity in these relationships. more

Verisign Enhances Its Managed DNS Service With Full Support for DNSSEC Compliance and Geo Location

Verisign, Inc. today announced two significant enhancements to Verisign Managed DNS, a cloud-based hosting solution that helps improve the availability of Internet and network applications by delivering 100 percent DNS resolution for customers. more

Is There More to the New Transparent Tribe TTPs?

The Pakistan-India rivalry has been going on for some time now, not just in sports events but also online in the form of cyber attacks. Zscaler ThreatLabz has been monitoring a result of this ongoing friction -- Transparent Tribe, also known as "APT -- 36" -- since the start of this year. more

Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief: 349.9 Million Domain Name Registrations in Q3 2022

Today, we released the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the third quarter of 2022 closed with 349.9 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, a decrease of 1.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.4%, compared to the second quarter of 2022. Domain name registrations have increased by 11.5 million, or 3.4%, year over year. more

Verisign Selected to Operate .gov Domain Name Registry

Following a competitive RFP and evaluation process, the GSA granted Verisign the authority to provide designated domain name registration services to federal, state and local governments operating sites under the .gov and fed.us domain names. more

.pw Announces Single Character Domain Names Auction

.pw Registry has seen over 250,000 domain names being registered within the first 3 months since the start of its General Availability phase, making it the most successful TLD launch since .co. more