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Malware Related => Tools of the trade / Internet News => Topic started by: sowhat-x on May 28, 2008, 05:42:06 pm

Title: "Worst Spam Offenders" Notified by ICANN
Post by: sowhat-x on May 28, 2008, 05:42:06 pm

The official ICANN announcement...
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-23may08.htm

For more comments/links regarding the above announcement,check the "News" section at KnujOn...
http://www.knujon.com/news.html

Title: Re: "Worst Spam Offenders" Notified by ICANN
Post by: sowhat-x on June 27, 2008, 08:57:45 am

And almost exactly 1 month later...is there really anything more needed to be said?

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/06/icann-and-ianas-domain-names-hijacked.html
http://www.zone-h.net/defaced/2008/06/26/icann.com/

Title: Re: "Worst Spam Offenders" Notified by ICANN
Post by: tjs on June 27, 2008, 04:41:40 pm

Word on the street is that this attack was a social engineering attack against the domain registrar. If this truly is the case, then there is basically nothing that could be done by ICANN to prevent it.

I was thinking about this sort of thing the other day-- and wondering whether it is still a 'defacement' if only a small subset of users see the bad page.. Example-- say I poison DNS on verizon such that amazon.com points to some other IP where I have a 1337 PWND message. Amazon will appear to be owned for all Verizon customers- but the attack has little to do with Amazon. Does this count as a defacement?