Instead of just launching distributed
denial-of-service attacks, cyber-attackers have started hijacking domain
names and redirecting traffic from legitimate sites to malicious ones.
The hacker group Anonymous recently managed to hijack the Domain Name System
record for CBS.com and redirected
all traffic to another Web server that displayed an empty directory
structure. It appeared as if the contents of CBS.com had been wiped, but it was
actually a different server altogether. CBS.com managed to regain control of its
domain after the DNS poisoning attack. Read all about it here...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
100 Million .Com Domains Registered
According to DomainTools.com, a provider of domain name research and whois information, the number of .com domains under management by the registry has eclipsed 100 million domains. In a statement issued earlier today DomainTools claims that through their research they “calculated the current total of domains managed by Verisign to be over 100.2 million” Read all about it here....
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