Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Most major brands suffer some type of online attacks but few use those attacks as opportunities to educate their customers.
This week, our customer Facebook experienced a high-profile phishing attack. Coincidentally, the attack just barely preceded our announcement that Facebook was expanding their relationship with MarkMonitor.
Facebook made the proverbial lemonade ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Javelin Strategy and Research recently released a study entitled “The Importance of Consumer Trust on FI Profitability” which attempts to measure the relationship between consumer confidence and credit card spending.
The study, conducted in 2008 using a random sample of 2,339 online respondents representative of gender, age, and income levels of ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
With the recent attacks against high-profile New Zealand domain names including Coca-Cola.co.nz and F-Secure.co.nz, fingers are naturally pointing to Domainz, the registrar of record for these domains, as the party responsible for this lapse in security. While domain name registrars certainly need to ensure the security and stability of their ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Phishing attacks targeted at retail registrars are nothing new. But are malware attacks geared towards the managers of corporate domain portfolios the next likely target? After all, wouldn't the fastest, most effective way to redirect website traffic be to update name servers, and/or DNS settings for a popular site?
One likely ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
One of the things that MarkMonitor does in an effort to improve our services is track the latest tactics of the bad guys whether it be phishers, domain squatters, or any other brand-abuser. In the world of phishing especially, the fraudsters are always evolving.
At this weeks’ Usenix WOOT conference, Marco ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Are you tired about all the hoopla over the recent ICANN meeting in Paris and the decisions made there? The most controversial is the decision to open-up the web to more top-level domains (.tld). In brief, brandholders and others will be able to create new custom .tld’s. These might include generic ones ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Recently, MarkMonitor has discovered several instances of company names and brands being used to steer visitors to web sites that eventually result in malicious or bogus software being installed on their system.
Upon receiving a Google Alert or searching the web, users end up on a free web hosting site like ...
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