.app arrives, Google's alternative to .com for apps with mandatory HTTPS
Google opens a defaut-HTTPS top level domain (TLD) just for apps.
Google opens a defaut-HTTPS top level domain (TLD) just for apps.
Google widens its push for all websites to enable encrypted connections with a new approach to HTTPS Strict Transport Security (HSTS).
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
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
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
Compressed in as little as a word or two, or perhaps an expressive phrase, trademarks communicate powerful stories about who businesses are and what they stand for. They are at once guardians of reputations, ambassadors of goodwill and advocates of consumption. They have two principal functions: distinguishing one business from another and signifying sources of goods or services. Trademarks are accordingly highly prized, and not only by their owners. They are targeted by predators in both the physical and cyber marketplaces. Thus, the need for owners' constant vigilance to police their marks and protect their integrity. This cannot be done without having an informed understanding of venues and remedies for infringement.
By Gerald M. Levine, Esq. | 15 Jan | Read more
A so-called spearphishing attack on ICANN has compromised the email credentials of several ICANN staff members and allowed the attacker access to user information, including email and postal addresses.
Grant Gross | 18 Dec | Read more
A newly formed non-profit called the Secure Domain Foundation (SDF) says its mission will be to provide free advice on security practices to protect the Internet's core infrastructure related to the Domain Name System.
Ellen Messmer | 24 Mar | Read more
From next spring, businesses in London will be able to advertise their local credentials using a new .london web domain, Internet super-body ICANN has confirmed.
John E Dunn | 19 Nov | Read more
ICANN plan for closed domain name record system criticized over putting too much power into one group's hands
Antone Gonsalves | 17 Sep | Read more
The practice of issuing SSL certificates for internal domain names with unqualified extensions could endanger the privacy and integrity of HTTPS communications for upcoming generic top-level domains (gTLDs), according to a security advisory from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Lucian Constantin | 18 Mar | Read more
A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday.
Mikael Ricknäs | 01 Dec | Read more
On Wednesday, .org became the first generic top-level domain to offer its customers improved security using DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions).
Mikael Ricknäs | 24 Jun | Read more
U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are trying to marshal support for changes that would make it more difficult for criminals to register domain names under false details.
Jeremy Kirk | 24 Mar | Read more
Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.
Jeremy Kirk | 18 Mar | Read more