Poll: Are you using Two-Factor Authentication at your domain registrar?
These days, the use of two-factor authentication – also known as “two step verification” – to access one’s domain registrar account, is a must. Considered one of several methods to lessen potential loss of domains to a cybercriminal, two-factor authentication is utilized currently by several domain registrars. Here are some: GoDaddy offers the ability to […]
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The Heartbleed incident is becoming a pain in the butt for many service providers, that have updated their SSL certificates, patched their servers and are now scrambling to have their users change their passwords. In the domain universe, Dynadot asked its users to change their passwords; now it’s the time of 101Domain. In an email […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Heartbleed bug: Dynadot alerts its users to change their account passwords
As a side-effect of the so-called “Hearthbleed bug“, thousands of companies offering services over SSL connections are now scrambling to patch their software. Among them are several domain registrars; yesterday, we published a list of those that might have been affected, including those that are now patched. Dynadot was listed as a patched domain registrar, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Heartbleed bug: Which Domain Registrars are safe?
With the Heartbleed bug affecting millions of web sites utilizing the OpenSSL certificate, one has to worry about the domain registrars using this type of software. The safe ones – at least as far as Heartbleed is concerned – are those that don’t use OpenSSL; primarily running Windows Server software. Even if they are safe […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Melbourne IT WordPress based blog hacked
Melbourne IT, the domain registrar involved in yesterday’s successful compromising of the Twitter, NY Times and Huffington Post UK web sites and domains, is apparently still the target of the Syrian Electronic Army. The corporate blog of Melbourne IT, apparently based on WordPress, was defaced and its content was substituted with the message: After this […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Unplugged: Name.com puts ‘Syrian hacker’ domain on registrar hold
Domain registrar, Name.com has put the domain name syrianelectronicarmy.com on “registrar hold“, effectively locking its update and resolution. The domain cannot be transferred out to another registrar at this time. The domain was used to share information related to a number of attacks on the DNS of several web sites, including Twitter, NY Times and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Twitter.com domains get compromised
The domain name Twitter.com is registered with Melbourne IT, an Australian domain registrar. A team of self-styled hackers calling themselves “Syrian Electronic Army” apparently compromised the account holding the domain name Twitter.com. While there was no widespread downtime for Twitter users, currently Whois.com displays the following WHOIS record for the domain: Earlier today, DomainTools […]
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