Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

On the eve of their federal criminal trial for allegedly stealing vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm ...
Whois Accuracy and Public Safety

Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct, an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale ...
Dot-cm Typosquatting Sites Visited 12M Times So Far in 2018

Dot-cm Typosquatting Sites Visited 12M Times So Far in 2018

A story published here last week warned readers about a vast network of potentially malicious Web sites ending in ".cm" that mimic some of the world's most popular Internet destinations (e.g. espn[dot]cm, ...
Omitting the “o” in .com Could Be Costly

Omitting the “o” in .com Could Be Costly

Take care when typing a domain name into a browser address bar, because it's far too easy to fat-finger a key and wind up somewhere you don't want to go. For example, ...