Forgetting to renew domain names

TP-Link, who manufactures routers, has forgotten to renew it's 2 domains names, which is widely used. This has now been jacked by someone, who is selling it for $ 2.5 M.

These domain names appear to be quite busy; estimates based on Alexa's ranking suggest that tplinklogin-dot-net sees about 4.4 million visits per month, with another 800,000 for tplinkextender-dot-net.
Seems like TP-Link is not at all interested in buying back those domains ... updating its manuals to remove the domain name references altogether.

This is an ideal way for someone to create spoof website, with a target audience of millions !

ICANN Hacked

Not the worse news we have heard this month, but surely another embarrassment. Simply said, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a non-profit organization that is responsible for managing the internet.

US To Hand Over Control of Internet Domain Names

What? USA is letting go of their control?!
Real? or bluff after Prism?

After 16 years of being in control of a large portion of the Internet, the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is handing over oversight of the Domain Name System (DNS) to another organization. 

Name.com Breached

A domain registrar breached, and then forces customers to reset their passwords. Such attacks are always critical, and almost out of the hands of the poor owners of the websites.

Google Upgrades Their DNS to DNSSEC

A recommendable move by Google.

Pakistan's Domain Registrar Hacked

Pakistan domain registrar of .com.pk, .pk, org.pk and others domains has been reportedly hacked

Attackers hijack the .ro domains of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, others

Worse type of attack to fall victim to... Lose your domain name itself.

Europol and ICE seize 132 domain names

Looks like USA is tightening security by forcefully taking over domain names.

GoDaddy's DNS Servers Hijacked

"In this current spate of attacks, criminals are exploiting DNS by hacking the DNS records of sites, adding one or more additional subdomains with corresponding DNS entries (A records) referencing malicious IP addresses. The legitimate hostname resolves to the legitimate IP address, but the added sub-domains resolve to rogue servers." The upshot is that hackers can thus hijack the DNS to create legitimate-looking URLs in phishing attacks, evading security filtering and tricking users into thinking the content must be safe

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Google & Yahoo's Ireland domain names hijacked

Google and Yahoo's Ireland domain names were hijacked. This is an attack which could be devastating for the end users, who would never get to know what website they get redirected to.

GoDaddy Attacked

Update 10-Sep-2012:
GoDaddy, one of the largest domain registrar was under a DoS attack from Anonymous. "The outage started around 10:25 AM Pacific time, and services for the bulk of affected customers were restored at 2:43 PM."
The surprising bit is that the hackers took down the DNS server of GoDaddy. This is pretty unusual. Would like to read more details about it.

Update 11-Sep-2012:
GoDaddy blames outage on corrupted router tables, and say they were not attacked??!!

Internet will vanish Monday for 300,000 infected computers

As many as 300,000 PCs and Macs will drop off the Internet in about 65 hours unless their owners heed last-minute calls to scrub their machines of malware.

DNSChanger's victims to be removed from the net

OpenDNS launches a tool to encrypt DNS requests

DNS requests [by default] are unencrypted, meaning that an interloper monitoring a person's internet traffic, such as over an unencrypted public Wi-Fi access point at an airport or cafe, could see the requests and compromise a person's privacy.

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