Fast Flux Hosting Briefing - Recording and Presentation Available Online

6 Jun 2008

"Fast flux" is an evasion technique that cyber-criminals and Internet miscreants use to evade identification and to frustrate law enforcement and anticrime efforts aimed at locating and shutting down web sites used for illegal purposes. Fast flux hosting supports a wide variety of cyber-crime activities (fraud, identity theft, online scams) and is considered one of the most serious threats to online activities today. One variant of fast flux hosting, "double flux", exploits the domain name registration and name resolution services.

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On 6th June 2008, ICANN hosted a briefing on Fast Flux Hosting for members of the At-Large and GNSO communities. The briefing, including questions and answers from those who attended, is recorded for review at any time as follows:

Streaming Audio (RealPlayer - English):

http://media1.icann.org/ramgen/ALAC/Fast-flux-briefing-05-06-2008.mp3

PowerPoint (2.5MB Download - English):

https://st.icann.org/data/workspaces/alac/attachments/fast_flux_hosting:20080529080519-0-19758/files/ssac-fastflux.ppt

For further reading on the issue the following publications are recommended:

SSAC 025: Advisory on Fast Flux Hosting and the DNS

English: http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac025.pdf

French: http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac025-fr.pdf

Spanish: http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac025-es.pdf

GNSO Staff Issues Report on Fast Flux Hosting

English:

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/fast-flux-hosting/gnso-issues-report-fast-flux-25mar08.pdf