Top 50 Bad Hosts, Q2 2010
07 2010
  HostExploit is pleased to present the Q2 2010 report on the ‘Top 50 Bad Hosts and Networks’. At rank #1 in the report, Demand Media/eNom (USA) earns the label of ‘worst host’ from security analysts at HostExploit, taking over the top spot... Read more...

Router Hacking, Warkitting Take Stage at Black Hat
07 2010
Router hacking and modem security is in the news again, thanks to a presentation at Black Hat in Las Vegas this week and to the associated sensational press response. Whether at home or in the enterprise, invariably modems and routers are overlooked... Read more...

Security Lessons From the 'Adult' Web
07 2010
Any discussions regarding the online adult, or porn, industry provoke polarized views. It is not an easy subject to approach from any angle, due to the taboo on these sites, which also has benefited cybercriminals, who very quickly learned in the... Read more...

BlackEnergy Exploit Kit Makes Off With the Loot
07 2010
Russian and Ukrainian banks have recently been on the receiving end of an updated version of a homegrown exploit kit, BlackEnergy. BlackEnergy has been known about since 2007, when Arbor Networks Inc. traced its botnets to the Russian underground... Read more...

Russian Spy Ring Is Nothing to Laugh At
07 2010
If you are anything like me, you have probably been scratching your head at the recent Russian spy saga involving the “illegals,” or a gang of more than 10 spies who apparently infiltrated themselves into American social networks, online and... Read more...

DotXXX Is Irrelevant to the Future of the Internet
07 2010
The top-level domain .XXX is still a “maybe” and is certainly irrelevant to the growth of the Internet. After a lengthy saga of six years, starting with the proposal for this new TLD being rejected and followed by an expensive independent... Read more...

Security Takes Center Stage at ICANN Meeting
07 2010
If there is one consistent underlying topic of the whole of this ICANN meeting in Brussels this week, it is Internet security. From ICANN’s CEO Rod Beckstrom’s opening statement on DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions), international law enforcement... Read more...

Knujon's response to eNom statement - ‘they don’t care’
06 2010
In a hard-hitting report, ‘Review of Illicit Registrar 2010’, KnujOn has revealed alleged illicit practices of at least 162 Registrars who could be benefiting from significant financial returns from their complicity. Particular attention has... Read more...