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Comment It looks to me like bloatware has now spilled out of the PC domain and invaded everything. You name it, I've installed it. Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens.
[16 Apr 2008]
News Last year's domain name disputes involved a wide range of products, events and people, including Airbus's A380 jet, the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Harvard Business School, Lance Armstrong's Livestrong foundation, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and...
[28 Mar 2008]
News It contained a fake codec that manipulated a Mac's domain name server settings to hijack which sites an infected computer could visit, according to Sophos's head of technology, Paul Ducklin. Always looking out for the underdog… click here for Seb...
[23 Jan 2008]
Comment This approach can provide such information as longitude, latitude, connection type and speed, ISP, company name and domain name. One way of doing that is to identify exactly where they are located, says Quocirca's Louella Fernandes.
[09 Jan 2008]
News The security of domain name system (DNS) continues to be an issue for network administrators, despite the availability of more secure DNS servers such as BIND 9, according to a survey by network appliance company, Infoblox.
[21 Nov 2007]
News If it is downloaded, it alters a computer's domain name system (DNS) server, redirecting the machine to porn sites of the malware distributor's choice. Runald said: "It reports the name of the computer and the operating system version back to...
[09 Nov 2007]
whitepaper Winbind links together the domain controller's database and Linux's native authentication system, the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). If the existing network uses an NT domain or an Active Directory domain, the user may want to tap into the...
[24 Oct 2007]
whitepaper For example, a user account sandy can accept incoming SSH connections from any machine on the Internet, while rick permits connections only from the domain verysafe.com, and fraidycat refuses key-based connections.
[17 Oct 2007]
AS Profile Not every decision is welcomed of course - for example, Reding earned the disapproval of ISPs earlier this year because of the way the dot-eu domain name registration was handled. It's not often a politician makes it into the top 50, but according...
[12 Oct 2007]
News While Linux has made considerable inroads in the server world and Apple has been able to substantially boost its market share in the consumer market, the corporate desktop remains solidly in Microsoft's domain.
[16 Aug 2007]
whitepaper This paper shows how to use Windows 2000 Domain Name System (DNS) to support the Active Directory directory service when a DNS server that does not support Service (SRV) resource records is authoritative for the company's DNS name, and users want...
[23 Jul 2007]
whitepaper GoDaddy.com (GoDaddy) holds the world's #1 ranking in new domain name registrations and domains under management. GoDaddy expects to grow 100% annually, stay flexible, and deliver best-value innovations and service.
[20 Jul 2007]
whitepaper The DNS is a hierarchical database containing records that describe the name, IP address, and other information about hosts. Simply put, the DNS furnishes a name-to-address directory service for network applications that need to locate specific...
[18 Jul 2007]
News London is one of 650 cities around the world that has been offered a free dot-mobi domain by the organisation behind the mobile-friendly domain name extension drive. At the time of writing, the London mayor's office had not yet confirmed whether or...
[11 Jul 2007]
News Lesley Cowley, chief executive of Nominet, said: "With six million domain names now registered and a large percentage of these linked to ecommerce, it's easy to see the importance of a .co.uk domain name to a business.
[09 Jul 2007]
News Kimmo Alkio, CEO of F-Secure, recently rejoined the antivirus vendor from fellow Finnish company Nokia.silicon.com recently caught up with Alkio to discuss the security landscape, how governments should handle hackers, the need for a dot-bank...
[01 Jun 2007]
News s mail servers can automatically check PayPal's internet domain name listing to verify that the digital signature is valid and the message truly originated at Paypal.com. Also, it does not do anything to flag junk email sent by a legitimate company...
[23 May 2007]
whitepaper As the world's largest domain name registrar and shared hosting provider, Go Daddy is clearly going places. The company's customer-centric focus and use of internal development resources have created a business model for success.
[17 May 2007]
Comment Domain name You can try this out before you commit to a domain and then register at any one of a myriad of different registration sites. Registering a dot-com and .co.uk domain shouldn't cost you more than £6 per year to own.
[16 May 2007]
News This includes an expected patch for a flaw in the Windows domain name system, or DNS. Microsoft's MS07-027 update fixes six flaws in Internet Explorer that could be exploited through malicious websites.
[09 May 2007]
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