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 ...

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), ...

The reign of WHOIS to define domain registration may be coming to a close in the face of security issues, leading to a growing number of fraudulent Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is resulting in internet domain registrars hiding domain registration information to avoid fines for non-compliance. Domain registration information ...

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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 ...

The Federal Trade Commission has made a pitch for open access to Whois, saying the databases are a key weapon in its fight against spyware and other Internet fraud. The agency on Tuesday called access ...