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It happened in December of 2007. A designer named David Airey was on a much needed vacation from work, computers, and the technical life. His relaxing vacation soon became one of stress and worry when he was notified by friends that his domain name was forwarding to another site. As …
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After being ordered by a court to pay a $65 million restitution, the sex.com domain hijacker, Stephen Cohen, spent four years on the run. Law enforcement officials found him in Tijuana and arrested him on Thursday.…
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The original owner of the domain sex.com and VeriSign have reached a settlement. The lawsuit alleged that Network Solutions was liable for transferring the stolen domain without getting proper authorization. The landmark case essentially considered domain names actual property. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but source say it …
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Stephen Cohen’s, the man who illegally hijacked the sex.com domain, appeal. “The Supreme Court’s denial of Mr. Cohen’s writ petition is significant because it puts the final nail in the coffin,” said Pamela Ureta, an attorney for Gary Kremen, founder of Sex.com. “Cohen has tried …
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Gary Kremen claims he’s the rightful owner of the multi-million dollar domain, sex.com. He says that Stephen Cohen hijacked the domain in an identity spoof and tried suing both Cohen and Network Solutions for the faulty transfer. A Judge issued a free pass for Network Solutions (which Kremen vows to …
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While some report the number of domains hijacked in a Serbian ‘eTerrorist’ attack to be in the high 2000’s, Network Solutions says “No.” The company maintains that very few websites were affected, and that their servers were not hacked. The hijacking was an age-old email spoof job, which is completely …
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Network Solutions ‘lost control’ of several domain names over the weekend through various spoof emails requesting changes to domain name data. Network Solutions claims that they offer security options to avoid such attacks for free, but that it is on the part of the registrant to keep their accounts at …
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The Network Solutions chief ‘enemy’, AlterNIC may be on the rise again, as Jason Hendeles, former business partner of Eugene Kashpureff, seeks to revive its once powerful status. Kashpureff, who is still waiting on a sentence for his computer fraud conviction resulting from when he hijacked InterNIC users and redirected …
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Eugene Kashpureff, known for redirecting InterNIC site visitors to his own site, AlterNIC, plead guilty to charges of wire and computer fraud. He will face a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.…
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Eugene Kashpureff said ‘forget it’ to the Canadian system when he was granted the right to oppose his extradition. Instead, he should be in the hands of the FBI by Friday. Once back in the US, Kashpureff will face wire and computer fraud charges after hijacking the site visitors of …
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Eugene Kashpureff’s hearing for extradition from Canada to FBI officials was delayed to December 12th. Kashpureff is wanted by the FBI for hijacking the site visitors of InterNIC (Network Solution’s domain name system) to his own domain name system, AlterNIC. The internet visitors were shown a brief message of protest, …
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Eugene Kashpureff has bounced around the Canadian Court system since Halloween, but the ironic part of his plight is that the country wants to get rid of him. Kashpureff has been pushed back and forth between the immigration officials who want to deport him and the court system trying to …
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After spending a few minutes in front of the judge today’s, the only thing Kashpureff knows for sure is that he won’t be going home any time soon. He was to be sent back to his cell to wait for deportation to the US, where the FBI waits to charge …
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The Federal government has filed charges of wire and computer fraud against Eugene Kashpureff for hijacking InterNIC visitors and sending them to his own site, AlterNIC. The internet users, once at Kashpureff’s site, were shown his protest propaganda, with a ‘click here to go back to InterNIC’s site’ button. The …
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The FBI finally caught up with Eugene Kashpureff and arrested him in Toronto today for hijacking InterNIC’s site address and sending browsers to his own site, AlterNIC, instead. Network Solutions (InterNIC’s ‘owner’) recently filed civil charges against Kashpureff, but dropped them and settled out of court when he publicly apologized.…
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