Internet Threats Blog
UPDATE - May 10, 2012 - ICANN intends to re-open TAS on May 22, 2012 with the closing date being May 30, 2012. Also, ICANN is offering a full refund to any applicant that wishes to remove their application before the reveal day. The process of acquiring a New gTLD (generic top level domain) is in full swing…or is it? The New gTLD registration deadline to register and request a TLD … [Read more...]
Most businesses today understand the need of having their own website, but most of those businesses don’t monitor their websites and even more don’t know how to react when their sites have been compromised. A study conducted which surveyed over 600 website owners and administrators whose sites had been compromised showed that 63 percent of website owners didn’t know how they were … [Read more...]
March is Fraud Prevention Month. Whether it is identity theft, phishing, online shopping, social media scams, or credit/debit card fraud, there are always victims and unaware accomplices who fall pray to big international crime organizations. The goal of Fraud Prevention Month is to increase awareness and educate public and private companies to avoid the criminal’s attempts so they can do no … [Read more...]
Need to research something on Wikipedia? Tried Reddit? You have probably found out by now that those sites and as many as 7,000 others are on “virtual strike” today January 18th to protest against SOPA. Need a refresher course on what SOPA is? Click here for a small summary. Ever since Reddit proposed a Blackout of their website and services for a full 24 hours to oppose SOPA, many more … [Read more...]
By Dylan Sachs and Minal Pithia With the recent news of even more malware on the Android Market (and the subsequent Microsoft offer of a free Windows Phone for some of those affected), people are getting more and more concerned that their devices, personal information - or worse, their bank balance - are going to be targeted. This news isn't really new - mobile malware has been a … [Read more...]
By now many of you have read about security site Sophos recently released post on Facebook’s report on compromised accounts. According to the released infographic, 0.06% of the 1 billion logins per day are compromised. It does not sound like a threatening number until you realize we are still talking about roughly 600,000 accounts a day. Facebook’s report also indicated that less than 4% of … [Read more...]
Need a job? The globally economy is in shambles with well-paying jobs going the way of the desktop. Young and educated now means young and unemployed. Alas, even with the economic downturn, hack and wack global security firms, national security agencies and even organized crime are on a hiring binge to add staff to their payroll: that is Hackers. Their rationale is quite simple -- find out about … [Read more...]
Just recently Paxfire – a company based in Virginia – has gone under fire after accusations that the technology firm has been working alongside various US ISPs to intercept and redirect users’ search queries while making a profit out of it. Although it is not clear to what degree the ISPs knew of Paxfire true intents, they have all terminated their contracts. Paxfire, along with Internet … [Read more...]
This year the discussion around online security has increased more than ever and it includes all of us: you, me, industry and Governments. We think it’s important that we keep the conversation about security flowing. National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), conducted every October since 2004, is a national public awareness campaign to encourage everyone to protect their computers and … [Read more...]
