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Domain hijacking is not something that happens when you drive into the wrong side of town.  No gang bangers here, trying to jack your vehicle for financial gain. Domain hijacking is the process by which domain names are stolen from the rightful registrant.  The way to pull it off is to trick the

So we all know about cross-domain vulnerabilities that allow attackers to run code within the security context of the target domain. Typically, they are either a XSS bug on the server-side application, or a bug in the client (web browser plugin or web browser itself).

Workers compensation company fails at attempt to steal SFM.com domain name. State Fund Mutual Insurance, a company providing workers’ compensation insurance in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to snag SFM.com.

Occassionally, I’ll republish someone elses work if i feel it important enough. Ive been tracking this news for several weeks now and, whilst initially I thought it was some sort of scam/prank/hot air, as more information has emerged, the more Ive realised the seriousness of what Dan Kaminsky discovered about the DNS infrastructure and how, more importantly, it cannot be fixed.

Domain names are in high demand these days, so much in fact that internet thieves are looking to steal them. Domain hijacking is increasingly on the rise and Network Solutions has been the biggest victim. Known as the largest and oldest registrar, Network Solutions recently reported that they have been thieved for hundreds of domain names.

The Tech Herald ICANN and IANA domains hijackedHeise Online,?Germany?- 1 hour agoTurkish hacker group NetDevilz temporarily succeeded in hijacking domains owned by ICANN and IANA on Friday 27 June. The irony is of course that ICANN …ICANN sites owned by Turkish criminal hackers CNET NewsICANN, IANA

According to website Zone-H, a group of Turkish hackers hijacked ICANN and IANA domain names on Thursday morning. All of the domain names are registered at Register.com. The group took over control of the domain names, including icann.com, icann.net, iana.com and iana-servers.com.

Yesterday a group of hackers called NetDevilz hijacked ICANN and IANA domains (screenshot below). It’s the same group that  hijacked Photobucket’s domain on 18 June, 2008. ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers whose job is to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U.S.

Protecting Domain Names With Domain Locking Posted on June 13, 2008 If you have a home phone, you’ve probably been warned about “slamming”, a process by which unscrupulous long distance carriers switch you to their service without your permission. What a lot of people don’t know is that this type of hijacking can happen with domain names.