ICANN participation

e-Crime and Abuse of the DNS Forum: a global perspective

Organized by ICANN Staff in Cooperation with the At-Large Summit

Wednesday, March 4

14: 00-18: 00

Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico

Don-Alberto 2-4 Conference Room

The Forum will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss numerous global activities and issues related to e-Crime and DNS abuse that involve a broad array of international stakeholders.  While not all of these issues fall within ICANN's narrow mission, the Forum is intended to facilitate public dialogue and working relationships on e-Crime and DNS abuse among members of the global Internet community, as requested by the ICANN community.

Welcome Alejandro Pisanty (former Director, ICANN Board; National University of Mexico)

Alejandro Pisanty will provide an introduction to the Forum including its format, aims, and objectives.

Session 1. The e-Crime Landscape

Moderator: Cheryl Langdon-Orr (Chair, At-Large Advisory Committee)

Panel: Beau Brendler (Consumer Reports WebWatch Project); Fred Felma (MarkMonitor); and Jeffrey Bedser (Internet Crimes Group)

Introduction to E-Crime

Beau Brendler will provide an overview of the manner in which e-Crime affects consumers as well as discuss activities that aim to educate the public regarding e-Crime risks. Fred Felman will review recent e-Crime trends, and highlight types of harms to end-users.

Sizing and Scoping e-Crime

Jeffrey Bedser will describe the e-Crime ecosystem and explain how organized crime uses the Internet and the DNS to facilitate criminal acts against end-users. Jeffrey will also discuss emerging legal efforts that focus on protecting end-users against Internet-based crime. Jeffrey will use the results of extensive attack traffic, DNS, and domain name data analysis to illustrate that e-Crime is able to exploit resources from virtually any user and provider in the global Internet. He will describe how criminal attack network activity is distinguished from legitimate (production) traffic. Jeffrey will also show the hotspots for bot and malware activity and where domain names are used to abet e-crime are registered.

Audience Questions

Session 2. Criminal Attacks and Abuse Response Today

Moderator: Greg Rattray(Chief Internet Security Advisor, ICANN)

Panel: Rod Rasmussen (Internet Identity); Tim Ruiz (GoDaddy), Greg Aaron (Afilias), Robert Flaim (Federal Bureau of Investigation); Vanda Scartezini (At-Large Advisory Committee); Jeff Neuman (NeuStar); Oscar Robles-Garay (NIC.mx)

Case studies in global criminal attacks

Rod Rasmussen will describe the chronology of events leading to the discoveries and cessations of two noteworthy security incidents. He will describe both the parties involved in, and the events leading up to, the disconnection of the McColo hosting provider, and the sustained disruption of Srizbi bot communications with their command and control servers by preventing the automated registrations of botnet domains. Rod will describe the events surrounding the attack against the e-billing company, CheckFree, through its domain names, the immediate effects, related phishing of registrars, and the prospects for future, similar attacks against the financial sector and end-users.

Abuse Response Today

The speakers will describe their respective roles in responding to, and acting upon, criminal complaints where domain names are used to abet criminal activities, and how to protect legitimate end-users from erroneous shut-downs (false positives). A law enforcement expert will describe the role of the private sector in cooperating with law enforcement agencies, and in proactively responding to E-crime so as to protect consumers.

Audience Questions

Session 3. Role of ICANN Stakeholders and Staff in Responding to e-Crime

Moderator: Lyman Chapin (former Director, ICANN Board)

Panel: Jon Nevett (Network Solutions); Garth Bruen (Knujon); Steve Metalitz (Intellectual Property Constituency); David Giza (ICANN Compliance Office); Roelof Meijer (SIDN); Adam Palmer (Public Interest Registry); Rudi Vansnick (ISOC.be); Marc Ottawa (Royal Canadian Mounted Police); Andy Steingruebl (PayPal);

The speakers will describe how current ICANN gTLD and ccTLD policies and contractual obligations of registries and registrars help combat E-crime. The role of ICANN’s Compliance Office in reinforcing these efforts, such as in the areas of WHOIS accuracy, and registrar breach notices, will be explained. The speakers will also discuss the efforts among industry groups to develop voluntary guidelines and share data to enhance the private sector’s responses to e-Crime.

Audience Questions

Next Steps – e-Crime Break-Out Sessions

Instructions: Denise Michel

The public will have an opportunity to participate in further detailed discussion and exchange of information by joining one of several break-out sessions on specific issues moderated by the individuals identified below:

• Law Enforcement and ccTLDs (Marc Moreau and Erick Iriarte Ahon) – Room: Dona Sol

• Consumer Protection in Existing and New TLDs (Beau Brendler and Holly Raiche, Executive Director, ISOC-AU) - Room: Don Julian

• The Role of ICANN (Jon Nevett, Kristina Rosette, and Doug Brent, Chief Operating Officer, ICANN) – Room: Don Soccoro

• e-Crime in Latin America - conducted in Spanish (Vanda Scartezini and Alejandro Pisanty) – Room: Don Albert 2-4 (Main Room) 

The moderators of each break-out session will summarize any suggested next steps and recommendations from their respective group during the Public Forum.