SecurityWeek.com published a piece on hackers abusing Google Tag Manager by injecting HTML or JavaScript code into websites using GTM. These were all ecommerce websites From the article: A legitimate Google service…
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Backed by the government ‘MDBR’ Service Blocks Connections to Malicious Domains
SecurityWeek published a piece on a new domain blocking service. It’s a partnership between government agencies and the private sector. The service MDBR seeks to block and report malicious domains, blocking connections…
Attacker gives Amazon fake details from a whois query, and gets real address
A former Amazon software developer had his account information given away by of all companies, Amazon. It seems that this all started with domain registrations, for some reason Eric Springer used the…
New U.K. Surveillance Bill includes monitoring users’ online habits
BBC.com broke down the details of the new surveillance bill to be passed in the U.K. No surprise there are opinions from all sides with some saying the bill goes too far…
Paul Vixie, Member Internet Hall of Fame: “New gTLD program is a Money Grab & Mistake”
Dr Paul Vixie, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame has called the new gTLD program a money grab and a mistake and called out ICANN for allowing it to happen…
BlueCoat Study: Top 10 Shady Sites in New gTLD’s Is Flawed as Unlaunched .Zip is #1
Blue Coat Systems, Inc, an enterprise security company, issued a report today of the 10 new gTLD’s that have the most “Shady Sites” (pdf) concluding that “more than 95% of websites in…
Click Fraud Malware Can Lead To Bigger Problems
Ashley Carman published an article today on SCMagazine.com that deals with click fraud malware and how it can lead to bigger problems. In her article she referenced a report by Damballa.com that…