ICANN's Fresh Top Level Domains: a Gift to Phishers

ronjor · Sep 18, 2014

Tara Seals US/North America News Reporter, Infosecurity Magazine

While the term “top-level domain” (TLD) may not be familiar to the average web surfer, it is a core part of the domain name system (DNS) that the internet relies on. TLDs refer to the last portion of a domain name used for addressing, i.e., .com, .gov and the like.
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subhrobhandari · Sep 18, 2014

“Since the crooks in this case own the domain, and obviously trivially can pass the so-called domain control validation employed by some [certificate authorities], they actually managed to obtain a real, valid SSL certificate,” SANS said.
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Does anyone know which of the authorities are compromised this way?

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