Advance Fee Fraud, Advanced Fee Fraud … or 419 Scams, or simply Scams?
Is it Advance Fee Fraud or Advanced Fee Fraud? Or 419 Scams, or simply Scams? Of late the meanings of these phrases are getting lost and causing confusion.
DNS Abuse Dominoes
While ICANN, the regulators and the various interest groups are debating the definitions of DNS abuse, what constitutes a security threat and is within their responsibility (or rather not), what’s wrong in this area, fraudsters don’t care about these shenanigans. They’re exploiting DNS to their own advantage in well defined illegal activities. The rules made when the Internet was young, seems unable to keep the steps with current realities. The divide between the ideal Internet in the regulators’ model and…