Data-Driven Insights on Internet Mechanics, Governance & Security
The protests and reprisals that have been playing out in Belarus since the August 9th presidential election represent another chapter in Active Measures campaigns and election subversion. This post, which builds on …
The question isn’t novel or fanciful. It was the subject of a McAfee blog post in the run-up to the US 2018 midterm elections. And in the DOTGOV Online Trust In Government Act of 2019, …
What if – Government voting sites used ‘.gov’ domain names? arrow_forward
In our April 17 post we reviewed the deluge of Covid-19 newly registered domains (NRDs) and introduced NLP (natural language processing) methods for characterizing domain names based on common words or strings (lexemes). There’s …
Can Pressure on Covid-19 Domain Registrations Reform Internet Governance? arrow_forward
This is the first in a series of posts describing preliminary research into lexical patterns of Newly Registered Domains (NRDs) pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic. For our corpus, we used the DomainTools Covid-19 …
NLP-directed Pattern Discovery of Covid-19 Newly Registered Domains arrow_forward
It wasn’t long after the first reports of Coronavirus in late December 2019, that I wondered how it would be weaponized in Russian state-sponsored disinformation campaigns. Maybe I was hearing echoes from Operation …