2023-11-08
Only 1,400 people live in Tokelau, a string of remote Pacific atolls. It had, for years, the largest internet domain on earth. How? Almost all users of its ‘.TK’ were spammers, phishers, and even spies. Tokelauans were barely aware - until now. My latest: https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
MIT Technology Review
How .tk, the ccTLD for New Zealand's Tokelau territory, gained 25M users, more than any other ccTLD until recently, by becoming cybercriminals' domain of choice
Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997.
2023-07-17
SCOOP: Millions of US military emails are being misdirected to Mali because of a typo. US military emails end in .MIL and Mali uses .ML. Today, Russia-aligned Mali regains access to the data as a contract lapses. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Millions of sensitive emails have been missent to Mali's .ML domain due to people mistyping the US military's .MIL domain; .ML control reverts to Mali July 17
Common spelling error has misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to a company running Mali's internet domain