Yahoo Sues ‘Lottery Spammers’ — Yahoo — InformationWeek: Yahoo Sues ‘Lottery Spammers’ The suit accuses the defendants of sending spam e-mails trying to trick people into divulging personal information by claiming they had won a prize from Yahoo.By Antone Gonsalves…

Comcast Domain Name Hacked, Website Breached for Several Hours: Shortly before 11 p.m. EDT yesterday, Comcast users began noticing that Comcast.net had been hacked. More technically, early indications are that someone hacked Comcast’s registrar account at Network Solutions, changing the…

Canadian Domain Whois Policy Changes Face Opposition from Law Enforcement: Sweeping changes to Canada’s country code top-level domain, .ca, will put the country on the vanguard of Internet privacy. But while law enforcement isn’t happy about potentially losing an important…

Yahoo Sues Lottery Phishers — Identities Unknown: Yahoo sues an unknown group of defendants it alleges operated a lottery scam that invoked the internet company’s name as a “coordinator.” Yahoo has no idea who the people behind the scheme are,…

Switzerland high court upholds convictions for terror website operators: [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Switzerland [official website] Wednesday upheld the 2007 convictions of a married couple for supporting criminal activities by operating websites that published statements and video footage from…

Most Spam Sites Linked to Just About 10 Domain Name Registrars: New research suggests that more than three quarters of all websites advertised through spam are clustered at just 10 domain name registrars. The data comes from millions of junk…

Identity Theft of Root Name Servers, Reason Unknown: There have been a number of attacks on the root name servers over the years, and much written on the topic. (A few references are here, here and here.) Even if you…