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BlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk
News If you can execute with the privileges of BES, it's significant what you could do on an email server or another domain name service. RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an update can be... [17 Jul 2008]
Anti-malware: Top of the list for Internet Explorer 8
News Previously announced features include highlighting domain names from the rest of the URL (so you can visually see that you are on eBay.com, for example, not some other site), and extended verification SSL. [03 Jul 2008]
Icann opens a can of worms
News Our clients didn't want the .eu domain name but they felt they had no choice," he told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk last week. All of a sudden, every brand will be forced to register their name at .shop, .buy and .london to stop anyone else... [30 Jun 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News Still, Twomey told Agence France Press that the organisation will still try to block or reject any domain name it deems inappropriate for security or moral reasons. At its meeting in Paris, Icann, a not-for-profit organisation that oversees the... [27 Jun 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Berkeley Internet Name Domain version vulnerable to buffer overflow: Some versions of BIND running on the DNS server may contain a buffer overflow vulnerability which can allow an attacker to crash the system. [19 Jun 2008]
Revealed: Top tech security risks and cash-sappers
News Name confusion: System names and domain name systems names often differ, meaning files transferred through FTP can be sent to the wrong machine, again having an impact on security and data protection. [29 May 2008]
Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks
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. If Mac users fall for scams that PC users have faced for... [23 Jan 2008]
DNS security still "as vulnerable as ever"
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]
Mac porn Trojan is multiplying, warns F-Secure
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]
Vista: Businesses rethinking quick switch
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]
dotMobi hands out free domains for cities
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]
Six-millionth dot-uk domain sold
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]
Q&A: Kimmo Alkio, CEO, F-Secure
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]
Junked: Is this the end of spam and spoof email?
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]
New domain names on the horizon for 2008
News Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body responsible for allocating generic and country code top-level domain names - gTLDs and ccTLDs respectively - is asking for public input on developing a new... [14 May 2007]
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