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Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale

February 8, 2020 admin Active Directory, corp.com, dns name devolution, jas global advisors, jeff schmidt, Latest Warnings, Microsoft Corp., microsoft windows, mike o'connor, namespace collision, The Coming Storm, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:32:04 +0000

As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com. It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe.

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FEC: Campaigns Can Use Discounted Cybersecurity Services

July 11, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Adav Noti, Campaign Legal Center, Dan Petalas, Defending Digital Campaigns, Department of Homeland Security, Eric Geller, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Federal Election Commission, Garvey Schubert Barer, Microsoft Corp., Politico, Sen. Ron Wyden, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, The New York Times

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:41:21 +0000

The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today companies can offer discounted cybersecurity services to political campaigns without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided they already do the same for other non-political entities. The decision comes amid much jostling on Capitol Hill over election security at the state level, and fresh warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies about impending cyber attacks targeting candidates in the lead up to the 2020 election.