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IEDR Take Website Offline Following High Profile Domain Hijacks

October 10, 2012 by Michele Neylon

The IEDR websites are currently unavailable. However this time there is a holding page which carries a simple explanatory message: IEDR systems are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience to our customers. As you may be aware, there was a security incident on Tuesday 9th October, involving two high profile .ie domains. There was an unauthorised … [Read more...] about IEDR Take Website Offline Following High Profile Domain Hijacks

Icelandic Registry To Introduce “Very Important Domains”

August 28, 2012 by Michele Neylon

The Icelandic registry (.is) plans on introducing extra levels of protection to some domains and their registrants. The new program is called "Very Important Domains" or VID for short (yes another acronym and you'll have to excuse my childish snigger when I misread it as VDS) It's not clear from the registry's announcement how exactly this service will work, though it's … [Read more...] about Icelandic Registry To Introduce “Very Important Domains”

Nominet Research Team Finds DNS Bug

July 7, 2011 by Michele Neylon

Simon McCalla has posted some details on the Nominet management blog about how their research team and in particular Roy Arends were instrumental in finding the latest bug in BIND. Disclosure: As a registrar I was informed about the bug before it was made public, but couldn't speak of it in public Related articles UK Registry Opens Consultation on Registration Periods … [Read more...] about Nominet Research Team Finds DNS Bug

ICANN Hires New CSO – Jeff Moss

April 28, 2011 by Michele Neylon

ICANN has apparently hired Jeff Moss (aka Dark Tangent) as CSO. Moss is a well known figure in the internet security community and was founder of Black Hat and the Def Con conferences. However isn't Moss a bit conflicted? Isn't he on one of the review teams? So how can he work for ICANN whilst also reviewing it? I suspect this will be clarified when a more official … [Read more...] about ICANN Hires New CSO – Jeff Moss

Namedrive In Security Hell

February 5, 2009 by Michele Neylon

I'd hate to be an employee of Namedrive this week.Earlier today word started spreading across multiple fora and blogs that Namedrive had suffered a security breach resulting in user logins being leaked. This supposedly only affected about 1% of their user accounts, but it's obviously highly embarassing for Namedrive.More details over on DomainNameNews … [Read more...] about Namedrive In Security Hell

Maxlock – Protect Your Domains

September 26, 2008 by Michele Neylon

Moniker has launched a new service to help domain holders protect their domains from hijacking and other issues.Maxlock, which retails at $59.95 per domain per year is aimed at offering domain holder peace of mind, as very stringent security checks are used to validate account changes:Unauthorized transfers - often times a result of shared accounts, employee errors, high-jacked … [Read more...] about Maxlock – Protect Your Domains

Check Your DNS Security

August 11, 2008 by Michele Neylon

In the last few weeks considerable attention has been focussed on security flaws in DNS.IANA have released an easy to use tool that allows you to check your dns to make sure that it is not vulnerable to attack and / or abuse.They also explain what the tool is checking for and why. … [Read more...] about Check Your DNS Security

McAfee Report Not Good For IE ccTLD

June 4, 2008 by Michele Neylon

Anti-virus vendor McAfee have released their second report on Malware (pdf) which tracks incidences of malware on a TLD basis.The previous report, which received a lot of press coverage, was very favourable for several ccTLDs, including .ie (Ireland).This time round the Irish ccTLD may not be listed in the "dangerous" list, but the threat levels have practically doubled! This … [Read more...] about McAfee Report Not Good For IE ccTLD

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