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The scariest thing about that GoDaddy phishing test story

A lot of employees apparently fell for it. GoDaddy has been taking a lot of heat for a phishing test email it sent to many of its employees right before the holidays. The email told recipients that they were receiving a $650 holiday bonus and asked them to click a link in order to receive […]

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December 30, 2020 Andrew Allemann Domain Registrars, phishing

GoDaddy pranks employees with “insensitive” phishing test

GoDaddy has apologized to its staff after teasing them with a $650 Christmas bonus that turned out to be nothing but a test of whether they could be duped into handing over their sensitive personal info. Employees worldwide reportedly received emails p...

December 28, 2020 Kevin Murphy coronavirus, Domain Registrars, pandemic, phishing

Donuts rolls out free phishing attack protection for all registrants

Donuts is offering registrants of domains in its suite of new gTLDs free protection from homograph-based phishing attacks. These are the attacks where a a bad guy registers a domain name visually similar or identical to an existing domain, with one or ...

June 16, 2020 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, dpml, homographs, phishing, truenames

Go here to help fight against coronavirus abuse

A coalition of over 1,000 security experts, domain name providers and others have got together to help coordinate efforts to combat abusive coronavirus-related domains. A workspace on the collaboration platform Slack has been growing steadily since it ...

March 26, 2020 Kevin Murphy coronavirus, Domain Tech, phishing, Slack

Morgan Stanley’s interesting domain name patent application

Company proposes a way to determine if a domain name might trick web users. I often come across domain name-related patent applications filed by internet security companies. But it was interesting to see financial services company Morgan Stanley file one. The company filed application number 16/059707 (pdf) for “Optically Analyzing Domain Names” in 2018 and […]

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February 19, 2020 Andrew Allemann morgan stanley, phishing, Policy & Law

Google launches Safe.page to improve web security smarts

Survey shows people still need help. Google Registry, the Alphabet division responsible for new top level domain names such as .dev and .app, has launched a website at Safe.page that helps people learn about phishing and secure websites. The company released survey results today showing that people still need security help. The survey of over […]

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May 15, 2019 Andrew Allemann google registry, https, phishing, Safe.page, ssl, website security

Phishing still on the decline, despite Whois privacy

The number of detected phishing attacks almost halved last year, despite the fact that new Whois privacy rules have made it cheaper for attackers to hide their identities. There were 138,328 attacks in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the Anti-...

March 5, 2019 Kevin Murphy apwg, Domain Policy, phishing, Spam

The secure padlock doesn’t mean a website is safe

Nearly half of phishing sites now use SSL. Google has led a big push in recent years to get all websites to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). You know a site uses it when it starts with https:// instead of http:// and the browser shows a padlock next to the URL. People have been trained […]

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November 27, 2018 Andrew Allemann phishing, ssl

Research finds homograph attacks on big brands rife

Apparent domain name homograph attacks against major brands are a “significant” problem, according to research from Farsight Security. The company said last week that it scanned for such attacks against 125 well-known brands over the three ...

January 22, 2018 Kevin Murphy Domain Tech, Farsight, homograph, phishing

Warning : Phishing scam using a dot .PRO domain

There is an ongoing phishing scam via SMS, and they are using a dot .PRO domain name. While there are not many .PRO domains around, this one targets users via a text message related to their banking system, Bank of Montreal, BMO. We received this from a fellow domain investor in Canada; when visiting bmo.com.account-secure.helppro.pro […]

August 29, 2017 DomainGang Domain Crime, dot .PRO, phishing

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