Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Network Solutions
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Malware=== One year later in August 2010, Network Solutions discovered that one of their [[GUI widget|widgets]] offered to their domain registration and hosting customers was capable of distributing [[malware]] by sites displaying it. As many as 5,000,000 of their registered domains may have been affected by the hack. The affected widget was at least temporarily addressed by Network Solutions, who were able to make changes to the [[Source code|code]] to prevent it from loading.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201032/6023/500-000-parked-domains-on-Network-Solutions-serving-Malware-Update |title=Network Solutions serving Malware |work=The Tech Herald |date=August 15, 2010 |access-date=2010-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817152941/http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201032/6023/500-000-parked-domains-on-Network-Solutions-serving-Malware-Update |archive-date=2010-08-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)