Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her ...

Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process to obtain ...

Whois, an online database that contains personal information about Internet domain name holders, is a major contributor to identity theft and defies advice from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...

Google leaked the complete hidden whois data attached to more than 282,000 domains registered through the company’s Google Apps for Work service, a breach that could bite good and bad guys alike. The ...

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More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit organization overseeing the domain industry has introduced ...

APNIC said the hashed passwords were accidentally included in the category of downloadable Whois information back in June 2017, during an upgrade of the APNIC Whois database. The organization has ...

Trademark owners are set to push for changes to a new proposal from ICANN aimed at partially restoring the use of WHOIS data used in combatting domain name abuse. Register for free to receive our ...

It’s a question that continues to plague the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), domain name registrars, the U.S. Congress and several federal agencies: What’s the best way to ...

ICANN’s operational design assessment of the SSAD recommendations makes for grim reading for brand protection professionals, with the proposed system to facilitate WHOIS data access set to be years in ...

After an election where data security became a regularly debated hot topic, you'd think everyone in politics would, for lack of better poetry, have their shit together. But of course, you'd be wrong.