[ga] Where is ICANN on security?: 2M New Websites a Year Compromised To Serve Malware

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Well, where is ICANN on security and policing it's
registrars/registries?
Seems to be asleep as the switch or indifferent/ineffective.

"Sophos claims that they are
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/23/booby_trapped_web_botnet_menace/
detecting 6,000 new sites daily that have been compromised to serve
malware to unsuspecting site visitors, with 80% of site owners not aware
that they have been compromised  though this figure is probably on the 
low side. With increasingly vocal 
http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2008/01/scanalert-xss-is-not-our-problem.html
arguments being put forward by security experts criticizing the
http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2008/01/25/329/What's_Your_Website_Hiding
performance and capability of site validation tools (though many of
these experts offer their own tools and services for similar
capabilities), and rising levels of
http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2008/01/21/325/Problems_with_Universal_Plug_and_Play_(UPnP)_Demonstrate_Blended_Threat_risk
blended attacks, perhaps it is time you reviewed the security of your
site and what might be hiding in infrequently used directories."

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