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Security experts revealed that criminals and rivals can use Skype users' internet address locations (IP addresses) to carry out cyber attacks and to spy on travelling executives by matching Skype names with IP addresses.

The article says perpetrators use several freely available tool kits to match Skype names with IP addresses, enabling them to identify a user's internet location.

Yes — the article notes that attackers use several freely available tool kits to match Skype names with IP addresses.

According to the article, knowing a Skype user's IP address can let criminals or rivals spy on travelling executives by revealing their internet address locations, which can be used for targeted cyber attacks or surveillance.

The article reports that Australian company ARI Registry Services was nominated by ICANN to administer three new Arabic and one Chinese-language top-level domains.

The article says the three Arabic domains translate to .web, .arabic and .catholic, and ARI Registry Services was also nominated to administer one Chinese-language top-level domain.

Brian Krebs is a security journalist and Fairfax contributor. He recounted that a cyber attack against his website spilled into the real world after he was targeted for reporting on cyber crime.

The article states Krebs was targeted because of his reporting of cyber crime in a raid that was sparked by a false FBI tip-off.