Botnets

29 April 2013 at 1:06pm

.ch and .li domains promoting malware clean-up

Andrew Cormack
Botnets
Role of ISPs
Domain Names
An interesting news item from SWITCH, the Swiss NREN and also operator of the .ch and .li TLD registries, on how they are alerting website owners to malware and, if necessary, taking action to protect customers from being infected.
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29 April 2013 at 1:07pm

Nominet Domain Suspension Paper

Andrew Cormack
Botnets
Illegal Material
copyright
internet filtering
Domain Names
Nominet have published an interesting analysis of the legal issues around any possible process for suspending domains associated with criminal activity. This raises the rather worrying issue that the legal position is not clear if a registry is informed of unlawful conduct somewhere in their domain and decides that the evidence is not strong enough to justify them acting.
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6 June 2012 at 10:29am

Can ISPs help with Botnets?

Andrew Cormack
Botnets
Role of ISPs
incident response
An interesting talk at the GovCERT.nl Symposium by Michel van Eeten of Delft University. For some time, and in many countries, there have been suggestions that ISPs should be encouraged, perhaps by legislation, to do more to protect other internet users from their customers.
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