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domain security
Zombie linkages are keeping expired domains trusted for years

Domains expire, get transferred, and return to the market every day. The systems connected to those domains can continue trusting the original owner long after control has …

application
Domain security remains an underutilized component to curb attacks

Despite the shift to modernize business environments and operations among the Global 2000 companies, web domains remain dangerously under protected, according to CSC. CSC’s …

flame
Leading domain name registrars suffered data breach

Web technology company Web.com and its subsidiaries – domain name registrars Register.com and Network Solutions – have suffered a data breach. What happened? …

Hand
How criminals abuse IDNs to conduct malicious activities

New research from Farsight Security examines the prevalence and distribution of IDN lookalike domain names, also called homographs, over a 12-month period with a focus on 466 …

EU whois
Will GDPR be the death of WHOIS?

Two cybersecurity and privacy attorneys recently argued that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will interfere with the availability of the WHOIS database and will …

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