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Rid your business of weak passwords and get collaborating
Comment Netcraft reports there were 231.5 million websites in operation as of April 2009 - an increase of 46 million in just three months, with the greatest growth coming from sites that encourage social collaboration and... [15 Oct 2009]
Passwords at risk from Firefox, IE flaw
News According to security company Netcraft, which discovered the exploit being used on MySpace, a fraudulent login page was hosted on the company's own servers. Both the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's... [23 Nov 2006]
Hackers deface Microsoft.fr
News The website runs Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0 web server software, according to internet monitoring company Netcraft. Hackers on Sunday broke into a part of Microsoft's French website, replacing the front... [20 Jun 2006]
PayPal tackles phishing trap
News At the malicious, information-thieving website, people are asked for their PayPal login information, experts at Netcraft, an internet monitoring company in England, said in an advisory. Subsequently, the scammers are... [19 Jun 2006]
Firefox takes aim at phishers
News Other providers include Netcraft and SiteAdvisor. The phishing shield is a key new security feature planned for Firefox 2, slated for release in the third quarter of this year, Mozilla's Mike Shaver said in an interview... [09 Mar 2006]
The future is open source
Comment Statistics from web monitoring company Netcraft show that 70 per cent of web servers on the internet use the open source Apache compared to a share of roughly 25 per cent for Microsoft's Internet Information Server. [21 Jul 2005]
Will .net fees rise after 2006?
News Internet services firm Netcraft noted: "[It's] a move that may signal Icann's intent to get out of the business of regulating domain name pricing. The master-registrar has agreed to give six months' notice in advance of... [11 Jul 2005]
Web users reject cookies
News Lawmakers and consumer lobbies have been considering the impact of cookies, and network security company Netcraft on Monday pointed out the risks to personal information posed by the theft of cookies by attackers using... [16 Mar 2005]
Phishers script their way into online banking
News An easily remedied website loophole may be leaving banks and other companies that do business online more susceptible to phishing attacks, according to Netcraft. Paul Mutton, an internet services developer at... [15 Mar 2005]
Dodgy characters create phishing flaw in browsers
News In December, internet security company Netcraft released an IE plug-in that it said could help people avoid becoming victims of online fraud. A security weakness in a standard for handling special character sets in... [08 Feb 2005]
Phishing plug-in aims to hook scammers
News Netcraft has released an Internet Explorer plug-in that could help people avoid becoming victims of online fraud. The company, best known for providing statistics on what software websites are running, stated in a... [31 Dec 2004]
Lycos kills off its anti-spam zombies
News After a week of heavy criticism of the company's plan to launch denial-of-service-like attacks on spammers, Lycos has thrown in the towel, lashing out at the media and internet monitoring company NetCraft. [07 Dec 2004]
Lycos knocks spammers off the web
News According to internet traffic monitoring company Netcraft, Lycos successfully took offline two websites hosted in China, bokwhdok.com and printmediaprofits.biz. Netcraft's website said: "A distributed... [02 Dec 2004]
Windows update site overwhelmed by patch-hungry users
News Internet performance measurement service Netcraft noted the problems as well, stating: "A browser request through Internet Explorer eventually raises the site after an extended wait and in some cases it is possible to... [15 Apr 2004]
RIAA site taken down again by virus
News According to website performance monitoring firm Netcraft the downtime has already exceeded the four-day outage in July 2002 which was attributed to a denial of service attack. The Recording Industry Association of... [23 Mar 2004]
