domain names
RSS domain names'Cross-border shopping must be made easier'
News In a strategy outlined by last week, the Commission recommends businesses create pan-EU websites and adopt .eu domain names. The EC has called for cross-border online shopping to be simplified, following... [26 Oct 2009]
Best Practices in DNS/DHCP and IP Address Management
White Paper DNS keeps track of the names and the IP addresses associated with each device on IP network. IP Addresses, Domain Name Services (DNS), and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). Together, these... [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: Inside the RSA cybercrime war room
Photo From the AFCC, the security firm sifts through more than 10 million emails every day, as well as domain names and fraudster chat rooms, searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection... [18 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up The Round-Up had a vague idea it was a group of high tech superheros with names like WebserverMan and Domain Name Administrator Girl who would fight their arch enemies the 404 Monster and Poweroutage Man. [24 Jul 2009]
The Consequence of Non-Cooperation in the Fight Against Phishing
White Paper A key way in which banks mitigate the effects of phishing is to have fraudulent websites removed or abusive domain names suspended. This 'Take-Down' is often subcontracted to specialist companies. It... [01 Jul 2009]
SSAC Advisory on Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks
White Paper This paper describes a form of phishing attack that targets domain name registrants. The attacker impersonates a domain name registrar and sends an expected or anticipated correspondence to a registrar's... [01 Jul 2009]
'Best video' scam takes Twitterers to malware
News The TwitterCut site looks like a Twitter log-in page and prompts people to type in their user names and passwords. The website, with a .ru Russian domain, purports to show an embedded YouTube video.... [02 Jun 2009]
Seven Keys for Successful Domain Portfolio Management
White Paper In the last several years, there has been a proliferation of new ccTLD IDNs (Internationalized domain names), many new second-level, and third-level ccTLD offerings, nine new sTLDs, significant changes... [16 May 2009]
Virgin Media to shift 20,000 customers onto Gmail
News The company said the rollout will be one of the largest deployments to date of Google Partner Edition Apps, which lets businesses and individual customers use Google's communication and collaboration applications under their own... [15 Apr 2009]
Microsoft puts $250,000 bounty on worm-creator's head
News Coalition members have been trying to thwart the efforts of Conficker by pre-registering and locking up the domain names being used by the worm to distribute updates. Nazario wrote: "The worm seeks to... [16 Feb 2009]
CIO Job Report: Movers and shakers
News Nominet, the internet registry for dot-uk domain names, is advertising for a director of IT based in Oxford with a £100,000 salary. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves... [27 Jan 2009]
BBC Music talking semantics
News Semantic web technology involves the tagging of basic factual information with metadata - adding context around the artist such as song names, previous bands, people they've collaborated with, venues they played at and... [20 Jan 2009]
Gmail 'vulnerability' a phishing scam instead
News In the post, Geek Condition's "Brandon" wrote that the vulnerability had caused some people to lose their domain names registered through GoDaddy.com. Google information security engineer Chris Evans... [26 Nov 2008]
Dynamic Pharming Attacks and Locked Same-Origin Policies for Web Browsers
White Paper In contrast to the legacy same-origin policy, which regulates cross-object access control in browsers using domain names, the locked same-origin policies enforce access using servers' X.509 certificates... [18 Nov 2008]
Inbox: Snooping bills, spam mountains, boring IT
Comment Company domain names of many small businesses are being blocked wholesale. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week.... [21 Aug 2008]
