Trend Micro Report Finds Criminals Unlikely to Abuse Namecoin
Namecoin's domain-name system is an attractive environment for malicious users, but is not likely to gain widespread use among criminals, according to a research report from digital security firm Trend Micro. The report, published last September and written by members of Trend Micro's Forward-Looking Threat Research Team David Sancho and Robert McArdle, outlines the properties of the namecoin top-level domain system that leave it open to abuse by malicious users. These include cheap and anonymous domain-name creations and a system that places domain-names out of the reach of central....
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