The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has published a report on Malware, which recommends increased awareness among Internet users as the best way to deal with the problem. There’s a welcome recognition that “it is clear that there is no easy technological answer to cyber crime… hardware solutions are likely to unduly restrict computer [...]
I had an interesting discussion last week with Thorsten Kraft of the German ISP association, eco, on how German network providers cooperate to help reduce the number of their users’ PCs that are infected with malware. The UK Government has recently added this as an aim in our national Cyber Security Strategy so the German [...]
Nominet’s Issue Group on dealing with domain names used in connection with criminal activity has published its draft recommendations, which seem reassuringly close to the JANET submission to the original request for comments.
Expedited suspension of a domain is regarded as a last resort, to be used only where alternative approaches via the registrar or registrant [...]
Questions about my last posting on Nominet’s DNS domain suspension discussions, have got me thinking a bit more about my idea of “domains registered for a criminal purpose”. My suggestion is that these should be the only domains that a top-level registry can remove on its own, rather than asking for the decision to be [...]