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The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name.  Customers are not happy.  The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to register the domain and prevent it from being grabbed by cybercriminals.

Link to full article:  TR-25-026-003_Mastercard.pdf

Several members of the US Congress called on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on 21 September to do more to protect the privacy of domain registration information.  US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and US Representative Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) led a group of lawmakers in criticizing the NTIA for not protecting the “highly sensitive” personal information used to register for .US domains.  The records contain usernames, addresses, phone numbers and email addresse