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If you’ve ever wanted to know who registered a particular domain, the domain’s WHOIS information can give you all the answers you need at your fingertips.

Typical WHOIS data can include a name, address, email, phone number, administrative and technical contacts, or other important personally-identifying information. WHOIS is not an acronym. It answers the question, “Who is responsible for this domain?”

Here are nine of the best websites to look up WHOIS information for any domain for free.

Who better to look up WHOIS information with than with ICANN itself? ICANN regulates and provides all WHOIS information.

The regulator’s registration data lookup tool allows you to access the current registration information for any domain name and Internet number…

Written by Benjamin Freed
Jan 7, 2022 | STATESCOOP

Thousands of schools in the United States and around the world have had their websites and some other functions knocked offline as a result of a ransomware attack targeting a major web host for K-12 institutions just as students prepared to return from the winter holidays.

The company, Finalsite, said Thursday it “identified the presence of ransomware on certain systems in our environment,” which led to its clients, spanning 110 countries, losing access to their websites and other online services.

The outages began on Tuesday, when Finalsite’s customers, like the school district in Oakwood, Ohio, began notifying students and parents that their websites…

Jessica Haworth

05 January 2022 at 14:56 UTC

Updated: 05 January 2022 at 14:57 UTC

Attackers leverage software supply chain to compromise high-traffic sites

Web skimming attacks are targeting hundreds of real estate websites via a cloud-based video hosting service, researchers have warned.

A blog post from Unit 42, the research arm of Palo Alto Networks, revealed how attackers are using the service to carry out a supply chain attack to inject card skimming malware onto victim sites.

Web skimming attacks occur when malicious script is injected into sites to steal information entered into web forms.

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For example, an online booking form…

Around 48,000 internet domain names belonging to U.K. citizens and organizations — including pro-Brexit site Leave.eu — have been indefinitely taken offline from Monday, following the revocation of their .eu domain names by the agency in charge of registrations.

The move marks the final step in an ongoing process since the U.K. withdrew from the EU on January 31, 2020.

U.K.-based owners of .eu domains were told that they needed to prove eligibility for an EU domain; otherwise, they would risk suspension, meaning their domains would be unable to support website-hosting or email functionality.

To register a .eu domain, individuals must be either citizens or residents of the bloc, and organizations should be established within the EU.

More than 80,000 websites…

A new analysis has revealed that there has been a six-fold increase in UK web traffic to websites that promote hate-filled “incel” culture. As per reports, users on these websites have been discussing raping women. A report by The Times suggested that users on the sites referred to Plymouth mass shooter Jake Davison as a hero and called for “all women to be raped at least once”.

Davison killed five people, including his mother. As per the police, the incident, which is termed the worst mass shooting in Britain since 2010, is not terror-related. In videos which surfaced online, Davison spoke of being “beaten down” and “defeated by life”

According to the law commission, incel websites show “threatening or abusive material which incites and glorifies violence,…