Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Fergie:

> While the 0-day exploit is the ANI vulnerability, there are many,
> many compromised websites (remember the MiamiDolhins.com embedded
> javascript iframe redirect?) that are using similar embedded .js
> redirects to malware hosted sites which fancy this exploit.
>
> And some of them have vast audiences, increasing the potential
> for a major "issue" -- TBD.

In today's world of ubiquitous advertising, vast audiences equal lots
of money.  That's why this is a problem which a few class-action suits
can and will fix.

The hard problem is repeated damage done by many small incidents.