[ga] 5 Million Domains Serving Malware Via Network Solutions

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

All,

  As if this comes as any surprise to "GA'ers". Just more
justification further documented demonstrating the decided
lack of oversight ICANN isn't but should be doing of it's
Registries/Registrars.  
See:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/16/214228/5-Million-Domains-Serving-Malware-Via-Netwo%7C

"A http://blog.armorize.com/2010/08/smci-widget-by-network-solutions-still.html
compromised widget provided by Network Solutions was 
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1431
serving malware on otherwise legitimate websites. But,
as bad as this discovery was, it was overshadowed a couple of days later
by another revelation: the widget is 
http://blog.armorize.com/2010/08/more-than-500000-network-solutions.html
automatically included on every 'parked domain' by Network Solutions! 
Searches on Google and Yahoo! revealed 500,000 and 5,000,000 domains 
affected and serving malware, respectively. A manual check of some 200 
parked domains on the list showed that all of them were provided with 
the malware-serving widget." The researchers who uncovered this issue  
alerted Network Solutions, and the widget was taken down a few hours later.

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 294k members/stakeholders and growing, 
strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very
often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability
depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of
Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: 214-244-4827