Details about the recent scareware campaign which infected a lot of Mac computers suggest the involvement of the largest Russian online payment processor, ChronoPay.The connection was made by IT security blogger Brian Krebs who has previously investigated ChronoPay and its CEO Pavel Vrublevsky.ChronoPay's busine... |
27 May 2011
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The Coordination Center for TLD RU (CCTLD.RU) plans to introduce an SMS verification system for .ru domain registrations to replace the passport-based abuse prevention method.The proposal was made during roundtable discussions on the subject of "the Internet and the Law" organized by CCTLD.RU, the Russian Association... |
24 November 2010
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The introduction of tougher requirements for the registration of .RU domains back in April failed to prevent spammers and other cybercriminals from abusing Russia's TLD.According to Web and email security solutions provider M86 Security, .RU is currently the second most abused top-level domain after .COM."Every ... |
23 September 2010
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The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with the alleged perpetrators of a scam that tricked domain owners into paying for unnecessary or bogus services, which bans them from similar activity in the future.In June 2008 the FTC sued Internet Listing Service, a Toronto-based company, for sending out fake ... |
12 August 2010
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Nobody can argue that the number of mobile-dedicated websites has risen considerably, since the mobile market has one of the most flourishing ones all around the world, while more and more customers use their devices as a means to access the Internet. Therefore, the acquisition of the domain .mobi is sure to bring Af... |
22 February 2010
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Security researchers point out that spam containing links to abusive .cn domains is on the decline. This trend seems to be related to new domain registration requirements recently introduced by China's Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).On December 11, CNNIC announced that a stricter registration proced... |
21 December 2009
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A white paper written by security researcher Jart Armin, in collaboration with James McQuaid and Matt Jonkman, analyzes the inner-workings of the biggest cyber crime hosting company in US, Atrivo, and its associates. The paper leads to the conclusion that such companies have influence over Internet authorities. At th... |
3 September 2008
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