To comply with ICANN and European Union NIS2 requirements, gTLD domain registrars must verify registrant email addresses. This “owner email verification” process was a topic of considerable discussion prior to and during the recent ICANN meeting.  ICANN is caught in a “failing to see the forest for the trees” situation: neither the findings nor the…

If you have ever done investigations, traffic analysis, or any form of content assessment, you’ve no doubt used cURL Daniel Stenberg wrote recently about the challenges the cURL team face with limited budget and increasing vulnerability reporting due to LLM use. I read about this crisis and immediately donated at https://opencollective.com/curl/donate Please consider donating. #curl…

Phishers always look for the effective ways to distribute phish email, lure victimsto scam web sites, and shield their online scams from discovery and takedown.Phishers make considerable efforts to maintain these shields, and have repeatedlyadjusted their attack methods in response to each improvement in antiphishingmeasures. Domain names have played an increasingly important role in phishingattacks…