Cyber Security Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice Jul 23, 2024 krebsonsecurity.com The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has been given until mid-August 2024 to…
Cyber Security ICANN Launches Service to Help With WHOIS Lookups Dec 6, 2023 krebsonsecurity.com More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit…
Cyber Security Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations Mar 7, 2023 krebsonsecurity.com The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped…
Democrat Politics Tips on countering misinformation as election denial persists Nov 29, 2022 cnn.com A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up…
Technology Dotless domains: Home to the Internet’s shortest URLs Sep 12, 2022 bleepingcomputer.com You may be familiar with some of the shortest internet domains used by major companies, such as m.me and fb.me from Facebook (Meta)…
Cyber Security Cybersecurity Act of 2022: A Step in the Right Direction With a Significant Loophole Apr 15, 2022 darkreading.com The act contains a loophole added late in the process that will impede progress toward the goal of increasing US…
Cyber Security Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU Mar 8, 2022 krebsonsecurity.com Lumen Technologies, an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the…
Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice
The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has been given until mid-August 2024 to…
ICANN Launches Service to Help With WHOIS Lookups
More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit…
Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations
The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped…
Tips on countering misinformation as election denial persists
A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up…
Dotless domains: Home to the Internet’s shortest URLs
You may be familiar with some of the shortest internet domains used by major companies, such as m.me and fb.me from Facebook (Meta)…
Cybersecurity Act of 2022: A Step in the Right Direction With a Significant Loophole
The act contains a loophole added late in the process that will impede progress toward the goal of increasing US…
Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU
Lumen Technologies, an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the…