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[News] Mozilla Invites Developers; ICANN 'Invites' Phishers

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about:addons - AMO changes & reviews, Dangers of eval(), New XULRunner, Firefox
3.1 changes & more

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| There’s still time to submit your new or updated extension to the Extend 
| Firefox 3 contest ending on July 4. You can read the official rules and 
| contest information at extendfirefox.com.  
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http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/06/26/about-addons-2/

ICANN Goes .bonkers

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| For the former, it means that domain names will turn into a kind of 
| protection racket: every so often, somebody will come up with some new 
| domain – things along the lines of .mug, I imagine – that all companies will 
| be invited to sign up for, just to protect their trademarks, you understand.   
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| For end-users, the already-confusing system of domains will become utterly 
| impossible to grasp. This means that phishing schemes and 
| generally-fraudulent Web sites will become almost trivially easy to 
| implement. The public simply won't know which domain name to trust, with the 
| result that confidence in e-commerce, and maybe even the entire Web, will 
| collapse.      
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=972&blogid=14


Related:

New shield foiled Internet backbone attack

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| ICANN has yet to determine the exact techniques used in the
| February attack. The incident will be discussed at a meeting
| of DNS root server operators later this month, the organization said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6166107.html


Zombie botnets attack global DNS servers

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| Hackers launched a sustained attack last night against key root servers
| which form the backbone of the internet.
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| Security firm Sophos said that botnets of zombie PCs bombarded the
| internet's domain name system (DNS) servers with traffic.
| 
| "These zombie computers could have brought the web to its knees,"
| said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2174383/zombie-botnets-attack-global


EveryDNS, OpenDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack

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| The last time the Web mob (spammers and phishers using botnets)
| decided to go after a security service, Blue Security was forced
| to fold and collateral damage extended to several businesses,
| including Six Apart.
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http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/everydns_opendns_under_botnet_ddos_attack.html
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