Posts Tagged ‘hackers’
ICANN Complains
The ICANN organization dealing with regulatory of issues associated with domain names, IP-addresses and other aspects of the functioning of the Internet, opposed the practice of correct spelling of users who receive the wrong website address. Currently some DNS-operators that convert domain names into IP-addresses and vice versa, trying to help the user requesting the wrong address. For this they return errors instead of addresses of other sites. As a result the user is automatically redirected to a site that he did not request.
Typically users are redirected to the popular portals or information and reference sites. ICANN calls this practice as potentially dangerous. First because of this increased response time. Secondly it is difficult to determine what the appropriate site is not working. Third when you try to send mail to a nonexistent address users do not receive an error message immediately.
Moreover such sites are potential target of hackers who would like to redirect users to their own resources that contain malicious programs. ICANN intends to prohibit the substitution of domains and will soon prepare a draft of an agreement with the owners of top-level domains.
Discovered a Fake Facebook
PandaLabs has detected a spoof page of Facebook designed to steal passwords from users of social networks. The content and the URL of the web page are identical to the actual page content service so it is very easy to convince a user to enter their name and password. After entering the password an error page which should alert and warn the user that he is on a specially crafted website. For reference you can see the image of this error:
Any data entered on this page fall into the hands of hackers.