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), ...

A practical joke misled many amateur investigators this week into prematurely believing that Microsoft's massive Web outage was the result of an attack. A technical glitch caused many of Microsoft's ...

The process of searching for a website’s owner is referred to as a “WhoIs search”, as in who is the owner of a particular site or domain. The search operation is often carried out if there is any ...

In fighting spam and other forms of Internet and e-mail abuse, many defenders of the ‘Net have noticed that the worst offenders often include obviously false information in their WHOIS database ...

You have probably heard about the GDPR and its consequences a hundred times by now, but for clarity let’s do a quick recap. The GDPR is a new regulation by the European Union created around the ...

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 ...

If the headline seems like a typographical error, it's not. The verb "to pwn" is Internet-speak for "to own by cyberattack." Fifteen-year-old hackers use it.-- And who might get “pawned” (pronounced ...

Regional internet registry APNIC has suffered an embarrassing privacy incident after being alerted by a third party that it accidentally leaked details from its WHOIS database, including hashed ...