Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (and easyDNS client) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown engineered what looks to be a textbook “pump-and-dump” on Twitter’s stock by putting up a fake “Bloomberg Financial News” site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares […]
Phishing attacks using SMS text messages
Be on your guard, the phishing attacks are coming from every vector nowadays. The other night I received this SMS on my cell phone at about 3:30am. Obviously a fake login site, in this case we can tell from looking at the domain name itself that it was registered for the explicit purpose of setting […]
Confessions of an ex-opponent of Whois Privacy
The following is the easyDNS response to ICANN’ public comment period on GNSO Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group Initial Report. The public comment period is open until July 7, 2015. We strongly urge you to make your voice known by signing the petition over at Save Domain Privacy. I submit these comments […]
Andy Lehrer Lawsuit is Finally Over
A judge has ruled in favour of Andy Lehrer in his suit against Tim Rourke regarding the pages about him on causepimps.ca and has been awarded full damages ($25,000) plus costs. Rourke was a no-show in court and his defence was struck. After some initial confusion as to whether there was actually anything for easyDNS […]
The ICANN Whois Accuracy Program (WAP) FAQ has been posted
We’ve posted the mini-FAQ about the ICANN Whois Accuracy Program (WAP) in the knowledge base. It is available here: https://fusion.easydns.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/260/17/the-icann-whois-accuracy-program-wap Further Reading: Unfortunately, We have renewed our ICANN accreditation As Deadly as a DDoS, ICANN Unleashes the WAP
Malware email alert from registrar@easydns.com
Looks like a malware email has been going out with the envelope from set to registrar@easydns.com Subject: Invoice The body of the message says simply: Check Invoice#37 The number varies but seems to be two digits, the attached zip file will be named Invoice#(37).zip where the number will match the one in the body of […]
