Website security

Best practice for owners of a newly registered domain: PART 3

Nurture your new domain and successfully build its reputation to ensure it’s an asset for the long term, not just the next 10 minutes. Learn how in this best practice.

Can you .bank on this registry for security?

Here, fTLD, the registry for .bank and .insurance top-level domains (TLDs), provides their view of how a TLD can make it simple for users to trust their interactions with websites.

Wordpress compromises: What's beyond the URL?

One of the many tricks in the modern cybercriminal miscreant's toolbox is using compromised websites to evade spam filters and domain reputation systems. Whether hiding a web-based exploit or just getting a free ride on the reputation of otherwise legitimate domains, using an existing domain name has multiple benefits –...

Subscription Bombing: COI, CAPTCHA, and the Next Generation of Mail Bombs

Internet harassment is becoming an increasingly ugly and widespread issue, and over the weekend of August 13-14 it spilled into territory we could do something about. After a few weeks of low level activity, over that weekend some unknown cyber criminals launched a targeted attack on over 100 government email...

Stop spammers from exploiting your webserver!

For many years, speaking of "botnet spam" mainly meant speaking about compromised Windows systems. However, in the last few years this assumption is no longer entirely true. Looking at the number of distinct sources, the vast majority of emitters are still about the same as before, but looking at volumes...

Comcast guarding users helps protect all of us

In October, Comcast Corporation, the USA's largest provider of high-speed Internet to private homes, announced the roll-out of its new Constant Guard security initiative. The system will provide in-browser notifications about possible virus infections. If the system detects a possible problem, a "service notice" will appear in the customer's web...

Spam, Malware and FTP cracks

There is lots of spam going around with funny subjects like "Mike Tyson to Fight Michael Jackson" or "Afghanistan to be 51st US State", or other equally absurd lines designed to hook unwary recipients into clicking the URL in the spam. Unfortunately, the results of following that link are not...