Saturday, 04 October 2025

ICANN is the “Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers“ - essentially the domain registrar for the world wide web. If you want a web domain you get it from them.

It's been reported that they have suffered a spear phishing attack which hit the “Centralized Zone Data System” and allowed administrative access to all files in it; public information in the ICANN GAC Wiki, and there was unauthorized access to user accounts on two other systems, the ICANN Blog (blog.icann.org) and the ICANN WHOIS (whois.icann.org) information portal.

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Following the news that Sony have cancelled the release of The Interview following the hack on their systems, Brendan Rizzo of Voltage Security and Amar Singh of the Cyber Management Alliance and GiveADay explain the implications of this decision from Sony:

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After posting their IT predictions for next year, Varonis decided to assign themselves an even more challenging task. Using recent headlines from the tech press as a baseline, they tried to extrapolate ahead to the year 2025. Where might today’s stories about technology and privacy lead to in ten years if we don’t change how we manage IT security today?

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  1. New security tenders announced by Turkish Undersecretariat for Defence Industries
  2. The British tank destroyers are coming
  3. First self-reproducing ransomware is also a shape shifter
  4. Apple pushes first ever automated security update to Mac users
  5. Citibank.com - XSS drive-by attacks are becoming even more sophisticated
  6. Anunak stole more than 1 billion roubles and thousands of credit cards
  7. Security and IAM predictions for 2015
  8. Largest military medical facility in Department of Defense selects NICE suspect search to help ensure patient security and safety
  9. New Years Resolutions for CSOs and IT Managers
  10. ESET: Top cybercrime trends and predictions for 2015
  11. Sony malware discovered, was sat on network for months
  12. IMPERVA SECURITY PREDICTIONS FOR 2015
  13. Sony system admin credentials stolen
  14. Check Point researchers discover significant security flaw that affects millions of consumer and business Internet routers worldwide
  15. Sony faces two lawsuits



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