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Afilias team members will be attending the 48th North American Network Operators' Group Conference in Austin, Texas.
Afilias will be exhibiting at this year's DNSSEC Pavilion at the FOSE show. Stop by booth #2012 to learn about DNSSEC implementation from our experts!
Afilias is a sponsor of ICANN no. 37
Afilias is a silver sponsor of the 6th Annual North American Summit on Food Safety. Afilias' Ali Rezafard will be featured on a panel discussion on Tuesday, March 9th at 2:15 p.m. entitled "Best practices in tracing food and pathogens to provide quicker recalls that are more efficient". Visit our booth to discuss how Afilias Discovery Services can provide complete and secure end-to-end traceability in a supply chain.
CENTR's 10th Anniversary Seminar "Who Should Govern the Internet?" includes a session lead by Afilias' Desiree Miloshevic entitled " Internet Governance in the New Economic Context and Recent Trends."
Mark your calendar for this important event –
An ISOC-DC Event
Join us for an informal, lively conversation on the new business models arising on the next-generation Net and whether these models will finally begin to generate the revenue so many Net investors have predicted for so long.
Leading the discussion:
* Kurt Baumann, CEO, 3Sixty Enterprises, www.3SixtyWeb.com, and former Angel/Venture
* Mark Potts, CEO and co-founder, Growthspur, www.growthspur.com
* David Johnson, Senior Resident Fellow and expert on the law of electronic commerce, Center for Democracy and Technology, www.cdt.org
* Wesley Kaplow, VP, Network Solutions and CTO, Polar Star Consulting, www.polarstarconsulting.com
Graeme Browning, author of "Electronic Democracy: Using the Internet to Transform American Politics", and ISOC-DC Governing Council member, will moderate.
Please RSVP by email chapter@isoc-dc.org. Open to the public, no charge.
For more details visit http://isoc-dc.org.
Dublin, Ireland - 29 October 2009 - Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that Matt Pounsett, a lead member of the Afilias Content Propagation and Resolution Services team, has been selected as a board member of the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (OARC).
The DNS-OARC is an organization that provides a platform for the DNS operations community to share information and data. It also measures performance and traffic load data to provide short and long-term analysis in order to learn and develop remedies to attacks and other problems affecting the DNS.
“Ensuring the stability of the DNS is essential to continuing the communication, e-commerce, and business channels that have become imperative to today’s societies,” said Mr. Pounsett. “I am excited to be able to provide my expertise from Afilias to ensure that the DNS remains reliable, secure, and resilient.”
Mr. Pounsett recently joined Afilias in 2009 and helps manage Afilias’ DNS infrastructure which supports nearly 10% of the Internet, including 15 Top Level Domains as well as Afilias’ Managed DNS Services customers.
About Afilias
Afilias is a global provider of Internet infrastructure services that connect people to their data. Afilias' reliable, secure, scalable, and globally available technology supports a wide range of applications including Internet domain registry services, Managed DNS, and services in the RFID and supply chain market with its Afilias Discovery Service.
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Avalanche eCrime Gang Driving Increasingly Larger Share of Phishing Scams
TACOMA, Wash. Oct 21, 2009 – A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG) reveals that the longevity of phishing Web sites dropped by 25 percent over the last year.
Uptimes are a vital measure of how damaging phishing attacks are -- the longer a phishing attack remains active, the more victims there can be. The decrease indicates collective progress is being made by the parties that fight phishing, and may be attributable to improved policies and operations at Internet infrastructure providers, brandholders, domain name registrars and registries, and private Internet security providers.
The “Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 1H2009” study found that phishing Web site longevity dropped to an average 39 hours in the first half of 2009, down from an average of 52 hours recorded in the second half of 2008.
The survey also revealed that a single criminal syndicate dubbed "Avalanche" was responsible for nearly one quarter of all phishing attacks in the first half of 2009. Indications are that the gang is continuing to claim a larger proportion of all detected phishing attacks.
“We’re pleased to see that phishing site lifetimes are being positively affected,” said Rod Rasmussen, co-author of the study and CTO of Internet Identity. “In particular, the survey demonstrates how anti-abuse programs at domain registries can have an immediate impact on the problem.”
“The results also show that on the Internet, action and involvement by responsible parties can really help Internet users,” said Greg Aaron, co-author and Director of Domain Security at Afilias. “When everyone takes responsibility and does their part to make it a safer place, good things happen. We think that is what we are seeing in the results of this study, and we’d all like to see more.”
Other highlights from the report include:
About the APWG
The APWG, founded in 2003 as the Anti-Phishing Working Group, is a global industry, law enforcement, and government coalition focused on eliminating the identity theft and fraud that result from the growing problem of phishing, email spoofing, and crimeware. Membership is open to qualified financial institutions, online retailers, ISPs, the law enforcement community and solutions providers. There are more than 1,800 companies, government agencies and NGOs participating in the APWG and more than 3,300 members. The APWG's Web site offers the public and industry information about phishing and email fraud, including dentification and promotion of pragmatic technical solutions that provide immediate protection.
APWG's corporate sponsors are as follows: AT&T(T), Able NV, Afilias Ltd., AhnLab, AVG Technologies, BillMeLater, BBN Technologies, Blue Coat, BlueStreak, BrandMail, BrandProtect, Bsecure Technologies, Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco (CSCO), Clear Search, Cloudmark, Cyveillance, DigiCert, DigitalEnvoy, DigitalResolve, Digital River, Easy Solutions, eBay/PayPal (EBAY), Entrust (ENTU), eEye, Fortinet, FraudWatch International, FrontPorch, F-Secure, Goodmail Systems, GeoTrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Goodmail Systems, GuardID Systems, HomeAway, IronPort, HitachiJoHo, ING Bank, Iconix, Internet Identity, Internet Security Systems, Intuit, IOvation, IronPort, IS3, IT Matrix, Kaspersky Labs, Kindsight, Lenos Software, LightSpeed Systems, MailFrontier, MailShell, MarkMonitor, Marshall8e6, McAfee (MFE), MasterCard, MessageLevel, Microsoft (MSFT), MicroWorld, Mirapoint, MySpace (NWS), MyPW, MX Logic, NameProtect, National Australia Bank (ASX: NAB) Netcraft, NetStar, Network Solutions, NeuStar, Nominum, Panda Software, Phoenix Technologies Inc. (PTEC), Phishme.com, Phorm, Prevx, The Planet, SIDN, SalesForce, Radialpoint, RSA Security (EMC), RuleSpace, SecureBrain, Secure Computing (SCUR), S21sec, Sigaba, SoftForum, SOPHOS, SquareTrade, SurfControl, SunTrust, Symantec (SYMC), TDS Telecom, Telefonica (TEF), Trend Micro (TMIC), Tricerion, TriCipher, TrustedID, Tumbleweed Communications (TMWD), Vasco (VDSI), VeriSign (VRSN), Visa, Wal-Mart (WMT), Websense Inc. (WBSN) and Yahoo! (YHOO).
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APWG
Peter Cassidy, +1 617 669 1123 pcassidy@antiphishing.org
Afilias
Heather D. Read, +1 215 706 5777 hread@afilias.info
Internet Identity
pr@internetidentity.com +1 253 590 4100
