Microsoft Buys 'corp.com' Domain Name to Protect Internal Networks

Security researcher Brian Krebs reported that Microsoft has purchased the dangerous domain corp.com to keep it out of the hands of the bad guys. The reason the domain has become problematic is it could provide the owner with passwords, email and other sensitive data from Windows PCs in companies where admins used a generic domain name (corp.com) to represent the idea of any domain when setting up Active Directory.