Privacy and Identity Theft

Paul Ferguson of Trend Micro has posted and excellent blog posting about the crucial importance of ISPs, domain owners and brand owners for having correct contact information. This is crucial in case:
– your website gets hacked and a phishing site is hosted on your domain
– your ISP or website gets hacked and malware is being hosted on your website
– some is using your brand name or email address to phish people

Please read Fergie’s posting here. 

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