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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • Otter@lemmy.caOPtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Hijacked journals are still a threat — here’s what publishers can do about themEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Hijacked journals are a form of cybercrime in which a malicious third party creates a cloned website to impersonate a legitimate publication. The forgery replicates the original journal’s important details, from its title to its archive and international standard serial number, a code that identifies the publication. The purpose of a hijacking is to generate money quickly by charging illegitimate article-processing fees to unsuspecting researchers. Although the hijackers often publish papers that have been submitted to the fraudulent site, these works are not peer-reviewed nor considered legitimate.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.world•Lots of dead Lemmy/Kbin domains have CNAME records pointing to the same domain parking companyEnglish
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    1 day ago

    From what I can tell, an instance is either ‘linked’ (federated) or ‘blocked’ (defederated) on Lemmy. Mastodon has some more granularity. If an instance came back as a zombie, it wouldn’t be any more powerful privilege wise than a new instance that is malicious. It would get defederated same as always.

    What could be a problem is on the individual user level. Say that a lot of users sort their feed by subscribed. They are not affected by random instances coming and going. However, they will be affected if a bunch of their (dead) subscribed communities suddenly become malicious.

    Anyway, I hope this at least serves as a reminder to not let our domains expire ;)

    It’s an important point for sure.

    Your sensitive data and logins are tied to email addresses, which are tied to domains. Lose your domain, someone can access everything.

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