.app arrives, Google's alternative to .com for apps with mandatory HTTPS
Google opens a defaut-HTTPS top level domain (TLD) just for apps.
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Google pushes ‘enforced HTTPS’ to the web via its own TLDs like ‘.google’
Google widens its push for all websites to enable encrypted connections with a new approach to HTTPS Strict Transport Security (HSTS).
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The week in security: CSOs want security-negligent CEOs jailed; Black Hat FUD returns
Australian CSOs blame CEOs and not users for problems in IT security, according to a new survey that also showed support for jailing executives whose failure to prioritise cybersecurity leads to a breach. Yet we need a broader approach to cybersecurity skills development all around to protect our economic future, Cisco Systems has argued in a response to the first-ever Australian Government Cyber Security Review. Skills deficits were even hitting high-level cybersecurity research organisations as companies continue to snap up anyone who can spell APT.
David Braue | 10 Aug | Read more
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ICANN Website Security Breached
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued a warning to those who registered with its public website that their profile accounts were accessed by an "unauthorized person". ICANN states that the usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords to people's profile accounts have been compromised in the last week. Profile accounts on the ICANN website can contain "user preferences for the website, public bios, interests, newsletter subscriptions, etc"
Brian Honan | 07 Aug | Read more
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Africa needs better online security, experts say
Building trust online remains a big hurdle to fully taking advantage of the Internet in Africa, and at the Africa Domain Name System Forum meeting in Nairobi earlier this month, experts called for more rapid implementation of security mechanisms on the central elements of the Internet infrastructure and recommended the use of DNS security (DNSSEC) extensions to counter the issue.
Vince Matinde | 23 Jul | Read more
Features about ICANN
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ICANN: data breaches not due to new top-level domains
An ICANN spokesman dismissed accusations that the recent growth in the number of generic top-level domains has caused data breaches, on Thursday.
Maria Korolov | 16 Dec | Read more
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Lawmakers: Keep ICANN oversight with US
Several U.S. lawmakers and an executive with the world's largest domain-name registrar called on the U.S. government to maintain oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) after a major agreement between two expires in September.
Grant Gross | 05 Jun | Read more