ICANN has announced that it temporarily took its New gTLD Applicant and GDD portals offline on 27 February 2015 to investigate a reported security issue. This week’s announcement also follows on the heels of a spear-phishing attack in December where a number of ICANN’s systems were compromised including the Centralized Zone Data System (CZDS) – …
ICANN has released an update that its systems were targeted in a spear phishing in November, read the press release below ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion into our systems. We believe a “spear phishing” attack was initiated in late November 2014. It involved email messages that were crafted to appear to come from our …
Remember the TLD Application System (TAS) glitch? Well ICANN has just experienced another Glitch. According to ICANN, CZDS is temporarily offline while ICANN investigates a technical issue with the system software. An update on system status will be posted by 23:59 UTC on 2 May 2014. Thank you for your patience. Read further reporting as …