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VeriSign granted dot-com til 2012

News The US government has approved a much-debated deal which grants internet domain name registrar VeriSign control over the dot-com domain until 2012. The US Department of Commerce has retained some management of VeriSign and has the final say-so over...

Tags: com, us congress, dot, icann

[05 Dec 2006]

CIO Jury: The Linux desktop is dead

News Others predict the battleground for control of the desktop is completely changing. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at Voca, said: "My view is that replacing one load of complexity on the desktop with another, albeit open source, isn't the way to go.

Tags: microsoft windows, cio jury, linux

[08 Nov 2006]

Net Report Sarbanes-Oxley IT Compliance White Paper

whitepaper Lastly the paper will present Net Report's Internal IT Control Compliance Solution which meet the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley Sections 103(a)(2)(iii), 302, 404, 409, 802 and 1102 along with related standards and frameworks: SEC Rules, PCAOB...

Tags: oxley, records, standards, compliance

[26 Oct 2006]

Dodgy porn sites tap IE flaw

News Last week Microsoft confirmed a flaw in an ActiveX control related to multimedia. Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense, said in an emailed statement: "Fully patched Internet Explorer browsers are vulnerable.

Tags: ie flaw, porn, flaw

[20 Sep 2006]

Attack code alert over unpatched IE flaw

News The flaw is due to an error in an ActiveX control related to multimedia features and could be exploited by viewing a rigged web page, Symantec said in an alert sent to users of its DeepSight security intelligence service on Thursday.

Tags: flaw, exploit

[15 Sep 2006]

Copyright tussle looming over online video?

News Michael Petricone, senior vice president for government affairs for the Consumer Electronics Association, said the proposal "would enable 'casters to gain very unprecedented control in the home and personal network environment, which would...

Tags: netcasting, webcasting, wipo, copyright

[06 Sep 2006]

Achieving Supply Chain Productivity

whitepaper Supply chain managers must be responsible for the earning power and productivity of the assets in their trust, not just for cost control of these assets. The numerator represents the net profits generated by the supply chain assets.

Tags: cost control - risk mgmt., chain, inventory, productivity

[30 Aug 2006]

US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?

News In addition to asserting its plans to retain control over the internet's "root", the master file that lists what top-level domains are authorised, the Bush administration said it planned to maintain its supervision over Icann.

Tags: icann

[17 Aug 2006]

Hollywood ready for DVD burning

News Soon, people will be able to copy a digital movie onto a specially made DVD under rule changes expected to be adopted by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA), the group that produces the technology designed to prevent DVDs from being copied.

Tags: hollywood, dvd

[11 Aug 2006]

On the Stability of Adaptive Service Level Agreements

whitepaper The authors pay special attention to the case where the monitoring of certain aspects of Service Level Agreements is used to alter future policy dynamically, according to a control feedback scheme. Hence the authors conclude that automated control...

Tags: sla, policy, linear, service level agreements

[09 Aug 2006]

Has US online gambling had its chips?

News It's also intended to aid the political fortunes of Republicans who are worried about losing control of the House of Representatives in the November election. Net gambling "is a scourge on our society", said representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia...

Tags: online gambling

[12 Jul 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Fat cat telcos are killing the net

Comment The reality is that all the necessary control can be realised from the periphery of the net. The net neutrality debate gives the old school the opportunity to resume control, to create a two-tier net, to grab more of the money and to restore their...

Tags: net neutrality, telcos

[07 Jul 2006]

Windows flaw attack-code hits the net

News Microsoft said: "An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system. The attack code takes advantage of a flawed Windows routing and remote access component for which Microsoft released a...

Tags: attack code, windows flaw, exploit

[27 Jun 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Net neutrality

Cheat Sheet An aggressive catfight about who should control the internet or at least the US portion of it is taking place in Washington. The internet is like no other mass medium because it is so chaotic and few companies can exert control over content and the...

Tags: net neutrality

[16 Jun 2006]

Hijack High Jinks: What This Means for Web Surfers

whitepaper This allows the hijacker to be in control of what sites one will frequent. A despicable new thing out there on the net today is hijacking. This software can cause the users search pages and home page to be not of their choosing.

Tags: anti-virus, sites, virus, defense

[09 Jun 2006]

Dot-com domain price hike sparks angry debate

News The settlement, approved by Icann's board by a 9-5 vote, ended a legal spat that started with VeriSign's controversial move to take control of all unassigned dot-com and dot-net domain names in 2003. A dispute over the cost of internet domain names...

Tags: icann, verisign

[08 Jun 2006]

eBay asks users to weigh into net neutrality debate

News Whitman wrote: "The telephone and cable companies in control of internet access are trying to use their enormous political muscle to dramatically change the internet. The concept of net neutrality, which generally means that all internet sites must...

Tags: net neutrality, meg whitman, ebay

[02 Jun 2006]

100 things you should know about handling net admin tasks more effectively

whitepaper Troubleshooting VPN connectionsProperly configuring AD domain trustsWorking with SQL Server 2005, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update ServicesUsing Cisco IOS access control listsSecuring wireless connectionsSaving time with the NETSH...

Tags: vpns, tasks, practices, configuring

[19 May 2006]

Is BitTorrent moving into the mainstream?

News BitTorrent has yet to prove it can safeguard video distributed over the net, offer studio executives the kind of distribution control they want and appeal to mainstream internet users. To send movies across the internet on a wide scale...

Tags: bittorrent, warner bros, file-sharing, p2p

[10 May 2006]

Webcasting ejected from broadcasting treaty

News The Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations, which proposes to give broadcasters 50 years of control over the content of their broadcasts, was initially proposed to cover broadcasts over television and the internet.

Tags: webcasting, wipo, copyright, drm

[09 May 2006]

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