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ICANN Sees Early Success in Application Process for New gTLDs

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by Justin Lee

January 20, 2012

Internet governing organization Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced on Thursday that exactly one week after it began accepting applications for new generic Top-Level Domains, the application system is functioning without a hitch.

Security Firm Prolexic Launches Online Resource Portal for DDoS Mitigation | The Web Host Industry Review

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by Nicole Henderson

January 19, 2012

DDoS security provider Prolexic announced on Thursday that it has launched its Prolexic Portal, an online resources that provides customers greater visibility and insight into its cloud-based mitigation services.

Zappos Security Breach Affects 24 Million Customers

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January 16, 2012

Online retailer Zappos announced on Sunday that the passwords, email addresses, and partial credit card information belonging to 24 million customers may have been exposed in an attack on a server in a Kentucky data center.

Slow Read DOS Attack Created by Software Engineer Shows HTTP Server Vulnerability

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by Nicole Henderson

January 6, 2012

A software engineer has created a new HTTP denial-of-service attack that is harder to detect since it relies on prolonging the time clients need to read web server responses.

Qualys senior software engineer Sergey Shekyan says his method, Slow Read DOS, is based on previous research, but works by slowing down the server's response. One of the previous tools that his is based on, Slowloris, slows down HTTP requests in order to prevent it from serving legitimate clients.

Netcraft Research Finds EV SSL Certificate Used in PayPal Phishing Attack

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by Nicole Henderson

December 30, 2011

Web analytics firm Netcraft announced on Friday that its anti-phishing toolbar community identified a phishing attack against PayPal in December that used an extended validation SSL certificate.

Anonymous Hacks Military Gear Retailer Website

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by Nicole Henderson

December 30, 2011

Hacker group Anonymous claims that it has stolen user password and credit card information from military equipment provider SpecialForces.com, according to a report by PCWorld on Wednesday.

Anonymous Hacks Security Research Website Stratfor to Access 3M Emails, Credit Card Info

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by Nicole Henderson

December 28, 2011

Hacking group Anonymous was in a giving mood over the holiday weekend, using stolen credit card information from security research website Stratfor Global Intelligence Service to make donations to charities like the American Red Cross.

In a post on Pastebin, Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown says the goal of the attack was to obtain the emails on its servers. On Saturday, hackers claiming to be a part of Anonymous crashed the Stratfor website and infiltrated its client list, emails and credit card information to apparently steal $1 million in donations for charity. According to a report by the New York Times, hackers posted a list online that contains its confidential client list as well as credit card details, passwords and home addresses for about 4,000 clients. Hackers claim to have details on more than 90,000 credit card accounts, and obtained about 3.3 million emails from Stratfor's servers.

Iran Moves Websites In-House to Protect Against Attacks

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by Liam Eagle

December 21, 2011

The government of Iran has moved most of its government websites away from hosting providers based in other countries, and into new facilities located inside Iran, in an effort to protect those sites against attack.

Quoting the country's deputy minister for communications and information technology, Ali Hakim Javadi, Reuters reports that more than 90 percent of all the Iranian government's websites have had their hosting locations transferred inside the country. The move comes about a year after the country came under fire from the Stuxnet virus, which appeared specifically designed to attack computers within the Bushehr nuclear reactor facility, in Iran.

White House Names Security Standard for Cloud Services Suppliers

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by Liam Eagle

December 13, 2011

Thursday last week, the US federal government has launched a security assessment and monitoring program, requiring service providers supplying government agencies with cloud services to commit to certain security levels.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program - FedRAMP, for short - sets up a list of baseline security requirements for government contractors delivering cloud services. The program was under development for two years, and should take effect in June of 2012, at which point all federal agencies must apply it to their cloud services sourcing. Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel called the FedRAMP program a "fist step" toward securing cloud environments, a statement that certainly suggests more guidelines will be launched in the future.

More Than 55K .XXX Domains Registered in First 24 Hours

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by Liam Eagle

December 8, 2011

Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire posted some information shared by the ICM Registry on Wednesday, about the success of the adult-content-oriented .xxx domain name during its first day of general availability.

According to the post, 55,367 .xxx domains were registered during the first 24 hours, bringing the total number of .xxx domains registered to 159,351 - as of noon EST on Wednesday - including the sunrise and land rush periods, which took place in the months leading up to the mainstream launch. One of the big early pushes for registrations, by ICM, was among companies looking to protect their brands by blocking .xxx domains containing their trademarks.

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