Almost half a billion dollars were lost by Australians due to scams in 2018, according to an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) report released on Monday. The report stated that the ACCC-controlled Scamwatch and other government agencies received over 378,000 scam reports in 2018, with the total combined losses from scams exceeding AU$489 million …
March 22, 2019 saw the completion of the final important step in the Key Signing Key (KSK) rollover – a process which began about a year and half ago. What may be less well known is that post rollover, and until just a couple days ago, Verisign was receiving a dramatically increasing number of root …
Over a million users might have downloaded and installed a backdoored version of an ASUS application that was served from the company’s official update servers. The incident is the latest in a string of software supply chain attacks that have come to light over the past couple of years and highlights the need for companies …
Those who live in low-income countries face the least affordable mobile broadband prices in the world. Now, new data from the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) finds that low-income countries saw mobile broadband costs increase for the first time in four years. The data shows that progress on affordability globally has stalled — and in …
Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have found that one of the most popular source code repositories in the world is still housing thousands of publicly accessible encryption keys. Over 100,000 code repositories on source code management site GitHub contain secret access keys that can give attackers privileged access to those repositories (repos) or …
ICANN has proposed new contracts for the .Org and .Info registries that would eliminate price caps on the domain names. Under the terms of the new agreements, .Org operator Public Interest Registry and .Info operator Afilias could increase prices on registrations to an unlimited amount, provided that they give advance notice. A price hike means …
The applicant of honeywell brand domain, American conglomerate Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has decided it doesn’t want to run its own top level domain name anymore nor transition it to a third party registry. The company informed (pdf) ICANN last month that it wishes to terminate its agreement to run .honeywell as a top level domain …
Trademark owners filed a record 3,447 cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center in 2018 as businesses reacted to the proliferation of websites used for counterfeit sales, fraud, phishing, and other forms of online trademark abuse. (Annex 1 ) WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said: “Domain names involving fraud and …
Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have spotted a new variant of the Mirai IoT malware in the wild targeting two new classes of devices –smart signage TVs and wireless presentation systems. This new strain is being used by a new IoT botnet spotted earlier this year. The botnet’s author(s) appears to have invested quite …
Happy Birthday, World Wide Web. It was 30 years ago that British engineer Sir Tim Berners-Lee effectively created the medium. To celebrate, Berners-Lee wrote a somber reflection on Monday on where the web—which along the way lost its early capitalization—is today. “The web has become a public square, a library, a doctor’s office, a shop, …