Posts Tagged ‘top level domains’

What has happened to DNS Security?

Jul

2011

It was not so long ago we saw Google blacklist complete sets of subdomains such as the co.cc domains. (http://www.seroundtable.com/co-cc-google-removal-13644.html) These were known to be hosting malicious websites. About the same time, I also started to investigate new ways of identifying domains connected to malicious content by analyzing the DNS information. During my research I […]

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New your.brand domain names to increase phishing?

Jun

2011

ICANN has just approved a new batch of individualized TLD’s (Top Level Domains), so now you can register your.brand, whatever yourbrand is, instead of the usual yourbrand.com, .net, etc., if you can prove to ICANN you deserve it. The problem? Users tricked by similar looking domain names have long been a boon for phishing exploits, […]

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