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• Top 50 Bad Hosts, Q2 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 from...

• Router Hacking, Warkitting Take Stage at Black Hat

  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 wh...

• Security Lessons From the 'Adult' Web

  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 early ...

• BlackEnergy Exploit Kit Makes Off With the Loot

  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 hacke...

• Russian Spy Ring Is Nothing to Laugh At

  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 off. I...

• DotXXX Is Irrelevant to the Future of the Internet

  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 review, t...

• Security Takes Center Stage at ICANN Meeting

  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 inpu...