Dave Piscitello, on behalf of the ICANN Security Team In recent weeks, numerous high profile organizations and financial institutions have been targets of massive service disruption attacks. Several of these attacks are characteristically similar to attacks against top level domain name servers in 2006. ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee published an Advisory, SAC008 [PDF, [...]

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Two senior members of ICANN’s Security Team have been appointed to lead roles on global cybersecurity and DNS security initiatives. John Crain has been appointed by the root server operators to a seat on Board of Directors for the Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC), and Dave Piscitello has been nominated by [...]

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Dave Piscitello, Sr. Security Technologist, for the ICANN Security Team Diigo is a social annotation and bookmarking service that millions of individuals, educators, and students use daily to manage and share information, conduct research and collaborate. On October 24th, an attacker gained control of Diigo’s domain registrar account. Domain was hijacked away from Diigo’s control, [...]

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ICANN’s vice president and CSO, Jeff Moss, visited Moscow for the 3rd Russian Internet Governance Forum. He was the keynote speaker at the Russian IGF, but the local organizers, the Russian Coordination Center for the .ru ccTLD decided to use him even more, and invited Jeff also to join a panel discussion on DDoS attacks, [...]

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Offers to Assist in Securing DNS 14 March — ICANN welcomed members of the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative (CCI) Steering Group to Costa Rica as part of its efforts to improve the security, stability and resiliency of the global Domain Name System (DNS). The meeting offered Steering Group members the opportunity to explain the purpose of [...]

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协助保护 DNS 3 月 14 日 — ICANN 欢迎联邦网络犯罪打击行动（Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative，CCI）指导小组成员前往哥斯达黎加，为提高全球域名系统 (DNS) 的安全性、稳定性和灵活性贡献力量。 会议给指导小组成员提供了向 ICANN 机构群体阐述这一行动宗旨的机会。 行动方案是通过 COMNET 的 ICT 发展基金会制定的，该基金会是领导联邦互联网管理论坛 (Commonwealth Internet Governance Forum) 的独立基金会。 如 CCI 网页上所述，此行动的目标是”协助发展中的联邦国家在政策、立法、监管、调查和执法方面发展自己的机构、人员和技术能力，旨在通过拒绝给网络罪犯提供庇护，让所有成员国有效加入全球打击网络犯罪的协调行动，加强其辖区的安全。” <http://www.commonwealthigf.org/cybercrime/the-commonwealth-cybercrime-initiative/> 这些目标包括一系列打击犯罪的活动，包括防止 DNS 的滥用等，且这些目标均符合 ICANN 的核心价值及其加强和保护互联网名称系统的安全性和稳定性的义务。ICANN 加入了行动指导小组，并表达了在与 DNS 运营和安全性相关的能力建设上协助这一行动的意愿。 ICANN 首席安全官 Jeff Moss 说：”透过这种合作关系，ICANN 还将在 DNSSEC 的部署上协助联邦成员国。ICANN 和此行动的一个重要目标就是努力让所有成员国签署他们的顶级域名区域。” 此次在 ICANN 哥斯达黎加会议上举办的研讨会是为”本着让互联网更加安全的目的，将 CCI 概念转化为运营现实，帮助成员国进行协调一致和可持续的能力建设。”COMNET ICT 发展基金会主席 Joseph [...]

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Предложения о содействии в обеспечении безопасности DNS 14 марта — ICANN приветствовала участников координационной группы «Инициативы стран Содружества по борьбе с киберпреступностью» (CCI) в Коста-Рике в рамках мероприятий, направленных на повышение безопасности, стабильности и отказоустойчивости глобальной системы доменных имен (DNS). Конференция предоставила возможность членам координационной группы объяснить цель инициативы сообществу ICANN. Предложение по этой инициативе [...]

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Offres pour aider à sécuriser le DNS 14 mars — L’ICANN donne la bienvenue aux membres du groupe d’orientation de l’initiative Commonwealth sur le Cybercrime (Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative – CCI) au Costa Rica dans le cadre de ses efforts pour améliorer la sécurité, la stabilité et la résilience du système mondial des noms de domaine [...]

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Se ofrece para asistir en garantizar la seguridad del DNS 14 de marzo — La ICANN le dio la bienvenida a los miembros del Equipo Directivo de Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative (CCI) a Costa Rica, como parte de su esfuerzo para mejorar la seguridad, estabilidad y flexibilidad del Sistema de Nombres de Dominio (DNS). La reunión [...]

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