Tag Archives: security

Sun 20th April 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Has a time come for imperative dual cause authentication ? - I was already thinking about the topic of  mandatory two factor authentication before Heartbleed. It was actually the story about Naoki Hiroshima and his post on Medium detailing the account hack at Go Daddy and Paypal, in order to gain access to the Twitter handle @N. Minda Zetlin of Inc Magazine recently published an article, ” Heartbleed Proves the Password Is Dead. This Is What You Need Now”. In the article Zetlin goes into the fact that no matter how good you think your password is, with ... read more ...
Sat 12th April 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Heartbleed.com Regged a Week Ago Already a US Top 5000 Alexa Ranking - Finnish security firm Codenomicon is the company that registered Heartbleed.com on April 5, 2014. Headquartered in Oulu, Finland and Silicon Valley, with offices in Singapore and Hong Kong, the company markets its testing software and services directly and through international partners. Codenomicon’s customers include Alcatel-Lucent, ATT, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Motorola, Google, Verizon, NSN, Huawei, and T-Systems among many others. The company is privately held with investments from Verdane ... read more ...
Wed 2nd April 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
UK reaches pivotal miracle in cyber security - Warwick Ashford wrote a piece on ComputerWeekly.com that covered what is a significant event for cyber security in the United Kingdom. As the Internet grows to be more important to just about every facet of human life, the stakes are raised on how to protect what happens online. The Internet of Things will take this to another level and there really needs to be greater understanding and education for all those involved. Its good to see the UK taking a proactive attitude with regards to increasing ... read more ...
Thu 27th June 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
It’s time to direct additional confidence from your domain registrar - Latest security lapses are another reminder of why we need added security. We are constantly reminded that thieves want to hack into our domain registrar accounts and steal our domains. Security has always been a concern for domain registrants and is frequently cited in the Domain Name Wire survey near the top of the list as to what’s important in a domain registrar. I think it’s time registrants demand better security from their registrar, or threaten to move ... read more ...
Fri 6th July 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
NCC skeleton to deposit $9.4 million in .secure (if it can get a domain) - Company hopeful it can prevail over Amazon.com. The CEO of United Kingdom security company NCC Group (NCC.LN) told Dow Jones Newswires that it plans to invest 6 million pounds ($9.4 million) in the top level domain name .secure, with over half of that in the next twelve months. CEO Rob Cotton also told Dow Jones Newswires that he thinks his company will prevail in getting the domain name despite it being contested by Amazon.com. Like all of Amazon.com’s domains, ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Security Software Every Domain Owner Should Use - In light of recent security issues, here’s a software program you need to use. A security breach was discovered last week at domain name parking company NameDrive. After discovering that many domainers were using similar usernames and passwords across multiple domain parking companies, both Sedo and Fabulous sent warning messages to customers. The scary part is that the hackers likely didn’t care about getting into your domain parking account. It appears they ... read more ...
Wed 8th October 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
The Weakest Security Link is You - Domain owners should be concerned about their own security precautions, not just that of domain registrars. Ever do something really stupid? That was me last night. I had a couple passwords for brokerage accounts at home that I wanted to access from my laptop. I know it’s not a great idea to send passwords via email, so I sent a cryptic email to myself that included two account login IDs and partial passwords. There was just one problem. When I typed the email ... read more ...