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From “.com” to “.anything”

13

Dec

2011

You may already know about the recent launch of the .xxx domain that is designed for websites with adult content. That is just the tip of the iceberg. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that coordinates the Internet’s addressing system, has announced a major evolution in the naming possibilities for generic top-level domains […]

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Transitive trust and SSL certificate verification

13

Sep

2011

On April 11, 2011, the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat UnitSM (CTU) posted a blog entry titled ‘Certificate Authorities for SSL/TLS: Crypto’s weak link‘[1], which discussed some of the strains of the current Certificate Authority (CA) system for validating web site identity. The backdrop to this blog entry was the breach of Comodo [2] and their resulting […]

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News Feeds Abused by Spammers, Again!

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Aug

2011

In the past few weeks, we have observed an old spam tactic re-emerging. Spammers are again using news feed to populate the subject header of spam messages. This technique has been used in the past in the form of directory harvesting attacks to gather valid email addresses. However, these attacks usually lasted for only one […]

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