Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a…
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
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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…