INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft has agreed to buy the domain corp.com in an effort to prevent others from abusing it for their own gain.Back in February,
KrebsOnSecurity reported on the story of a private citizen who decided to auction off the domain in question at a starting price of
have access to an endless stream of passwords, email and other sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs at companies around
has done little with it since then as he hoped Microsoft would eventually buy it because Windows PCs are constantly trying to share
sensitive data with the domain.The software giant has finally agreed to buy the domain from O'Connor but he isn't allowed to discuss the
terms of the deal including how much he received from the sale
systems protected we encourage customers to practice safe security habits when planning for internal domain and network names
We released a security advisory in June of 2009 and a security update that helps keep customers safe
the years in order to decrease the likelihood of namespace collisions that could end up creating security problems for companies which still
rely on Active Directory domains that do not map to a domain they control
However, vulnerable organizations have not deployed these fixes as they would require them to take down their entire Active Directory
Network simultaneously for some time and they could also break or slow down applications that these organizations rely on for their
day-to-day operations.Thankfully, now that Microsoft has purchased the domain, companies that built Active Directory infrastructures on top
