Cybersecurity is on everyone’s mind. From the President of the United States to Congress to each and every person using the Internet, the primary concern is to keep from getting hacked by sinister forces. HEROIC.COM is a leader in cybersecurity and its Founder and CEO, Chad Bennett, will be a Keynote Speaker at MERGE! 2018 to be held at the Hilton Lake Buena Vista in Orlando, Florida from … [Read more...]
DomainTools Launches PhishEye to Prevent Phishing Attacks Before They Happen
DomainTools, today announced the launch of PhishEye, asimple yet effective new security solution that helps to prevent phishing attacks before they happen. According to press release out today; "Powered by DomainTools' market-leading domain name discovery and profiling systems, PhishEye automates the process of identifying look-alike domains that spoof brand, product, or organization names. … [Read more...]
Report Shows How New gTLDs Are Actually Helping Cyber Criminals
There was a story posted on NakedSecurity.Sophos.com about how the new gtld program has made it easier for cyber criminals to infiltrate and hack entire organizations. The vulnerability lies with WPAD, Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol, a system that makes it easy for organisations to configure the many web browsers inside their network. It is important to note that poorly configured networks are … [Read more...]
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 saying it "indicates corruption." ZDNet.com, published a post about Dr. Vixie remarks from the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday. According to Wikipedia.org, Dr. Vixie is "an Internet pioneer, the author … [Read more...]
FireHost Rebrands As Armor After Purchasing The Domain Name Armor.com
On August 23, 2015 I had detected that the domain names Armor.com and Armour.com had likely sold and questioned if Under Armour may have purchased the domains from the past owner, Chris Poor who had owned them since they were created back in 1995. Well, a company by the brand name of FireHost sent out a press release yesterday, August 31, 2015 announcing a rebrand to Armor and revealed they … [Read more...]
Can The FTC Sue You For Lax CyberSecurity ?
A couple years ago after some famous website hack, I was sitting in a Chipolte and said to a friend that somewhere down the road companies are going to get sued big time for getting hacked if they were lax in their security. My friend told me I was an absolute moron. His take was that a company did not ask to be hacked and would have no way of knowing if they would be hacked. So today I was … [Read more...]
Architelos Releases its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst Offender .Br
Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a "Focus on Phishing" for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD's and Legacy TLD's like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abuse but still only 11K reports out of 118 Million or so domain names. There were only 143 Phishing reports for May for all new gTLD's out of over 6 million … [Read more...]