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Security researcher Brian Krebs reported on April 7 that Microsoft has purchased the dangerous domain corp.com<\/a> to keep it out of the hands of the bad guys. Microsoft is confirming the purchase, but so far hasn’t disclosed the price. (I asked.)<\/p>\n

Krebs noted in February that Mike O’Connor, who had bought corp.com 26 years ago, was auctioning the domain off for a starting price of $1.7 million<\/a>. The reason the domain has become problematic is it could provide the owner with passwords, email and other sensitive data from Windows PCs in companies where admins used a generic domain name (corp.com) to represent the idea of any domain when setting up Active Directory.<\/p>\n

As Krebs explained in February:<\/p>\n

“In practical terms, this means that whoever controls corp.com can passively intercept private communications from hundreds of thousands of computers that end up being taken outside of a corporate environment which uses this ‘corp’ designation for its Active Directory domain.”<\/p>\n

A Microsoft spokesperson sent me the following when I asked about corp.com:<\/p>\n

“To help in keeping 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. In our ongoing commitment to customer security, we also acquired the Corp.com domain.”<\/p>\n

Krebs cautioned that companies who have tied their internal Active Directory networks to any domains they don’t own — not just corp.com — are putting themselves in jeopardy from a security standpoint.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft has bought the corp.com domain, which was up for sale, to try to head off security issues that could affect thousands of Windows PCs.
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