Within the last year or two, I've heard people express an opinion to the effect that if the domain name industry put as much focus on preventing distributed denial of service attacks as we have on implementing DNSSEC, the Internet would be a safer place. 

While there may be a grain of truth there, I suggest that this kind of thinking presents us with something of a false dichotomy.

Over the last three years, the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s semiannual Global Phishing Survey has become a widely cited source of information about the state of phishing and its place in the Internet landscape. Afilias’ Director of Domain Security, Greg Aaron, has been co-authoring these reports with Rod Rasmussen of Internet Identity, with the goal to show the community what phishers are doing and how anti-abuse measures are effective.

Afilias' Dr. James Galvin will be a Keynote speaker.  The session, entitled Trust and confidence at the Internet domain level, will be held at 9:40 AM.  

In this session speakers will talk about challenges we face when it comes to trust on the Internet. Talks will center on trust with TLD, domain name system and business practices used to enhance trust.

Afilias' Greg Aaron will be speaking about the upcoming Global Phishing Report on TLDs Featuring the Avalanche/Zeus Pas de Deux.

Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) is where the messaging industry comes together to work against spam, malware, denial-of-service attacks, and other online exploitation. Greg Aaron, Afilias’s Director of Domain Security, will speak about domain industry security practices, including attack vectors that hackers use against registrants, registrars, and registries. 

 

Afilias will be exhibiting at this year's DNSSEC Pavilion at the FOSE show.  Stop by booth #2012 to learn about DNSSEC implementation from our experts!

Ram Mohan discuses in a CircleID.com blog post how hackers can gain control of a Web site and the implications for DNSSEC.

 

Read David Spark's ad:tech NY blog post about Afilias Managed DNS