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Firefox phishing flaw fixed
News The Mozilla Foundation released an update to the Firefox Web browser on Thursday to fix several vulnerabilities, including one that would allow domain spoofing. The open-source project released Firefox 1.0.1 to fix a vulnerability in the...
[February 25, 2005, 8:15]
FBI intensifies Melissa manhunt
News Until late Monday, a VicodinES home page could be accessed from the SourceOfKaos domain. Two Web sites with connections to Melissa -- SourceOfKaos.com and Codebreakers.org -- have been shut down, allegedly at the behest of the FBI, according to the...
[April 1, 1999, 9:46]
Arab news site suffers outages
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. Online vandals have defaced a greater number of Web sites following the start of the war, according to...
[March 26, 2003, 8:16]
Open-source IE patch hits trust barrier
News But Titterington advises companies to wait for the official patch from Microsoft: "Microsoft is going to have to patch it -- this came into the public domain with MS unprepared so there will be a time lag involved, so organisations are advised to...
[December 19, 2003, 15:10]
If Royal Mail won't free postcodes, take them off it
Blog There are also efforts to force the postcode database into the public domain. The best is a Geohash, a public domain system that turns a point or a bounding box into a short code. This is the principle behind the site freethepostcode.org, where you...
[October 9, 2009, 16:08]
Linux love: VA Linux buys Andover.net
News VA Linux already owns the Linux.com domain. Andover.net and VA Linux operate the Linux.com, Sourceforge.net, and Themes.org, Slashdot.org and Freshmeat.net sites and account for almost two-thirds of Linux traffic.
[February 3, 2000, 13:00]
NASA site blocks out Brazil
News JPL spokesman Frank O'Donnell confirmed that Brazil -- Latin America's most populous country and the Internet's 19th ranked top-level domain -- was being blacklisted for now. Although Zajicek couldn't comment specifically about JPL's actions, he...
[March 16, 2000, 10:54]
Perens: Avoid repeating Unix mistakes
News The entire domain-name system of the Internet runs on BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain), which is an open-source name server.I don't think corporate IT folks ever considered Microsoft applications or operating systems to be "safe.
[December 5, 2002, 6:55]
Open Rights and digital freedom
News We are particularly interested in finding out what policies exist for releasing information that's already in the public domain. A digital-rights organisation, Open Rights Group (ORG), has been formed to tackle European and British legislation...
[September 12, 2005, 17:20]
May Day hysteria unfounded, say activists
News By registering a name using the new domain extensions with Name.Space you are also becoming a part of the struggle to preserve free speech and access in an increasingly hostile climate of censorship," says the release.
[April 30, 2001, 14:38]
Broken Windows Part 3
Blog I'm not an admin on the AD domain. I had to program my domain user name onto the local domain (the computer itself) as a local admin. Then every time I installed software I had to allow it to continue by using my local user name and password (I'm...
[March 24, 2009, 7:49]
Latest Linux kernel due in December
News Morton is one of Torvalds' key right-hand men, called "maintainers," responsible for various sections of Linux; Morton's domain is the 2.6 kernel itself. In addition, the commercial kernels have other patches that make them different from the...
[November 26, 2003, 9:20]
Novell's NetMail XE an alternative to Exchange?
News Enter the domain name that your mail server will be handling and the two domain name servers it will use for DNS resolution, and click OK. Unlike Exchange, which you add to the server's URL to get into the Web interface, NetMail replaces the main...
[February 12, 2003, 8:56]
Cybersquatting cases branded as 'biased'
News When Irving Remocker from Glasgow won the right to keep the domain name for his chess Web site, yourmove.com, in the face of legal action from £20bn insurance giant CGNU earlier this year, the odds were against him.
[August 21, 2001, 17:15]
Rip-off Ryanair take it a step too far!
Blog Comment Don't know if this is of help, but i recently replied to this blog post concerning ryanair [domain name] which contains a URL: www.ryanaircampaign.org.
[January 25, 2007, 8:53]
Ryanair critic wins web battle
Blog Ryanair had complained that the domain name infringed on its trademarks and should therefore be transferred into Ryanair's possession. Michael Coulston, who set up a web site critical of Ryanair's business practices, has won a battle to keep www...
[December 28, 2006, 16:36]
FFII Web site taken down
News The FFII said on Monday that it has already found another hosting company, but the transfer of the FFII.org domain could take "up to 3 days". The FFII Web site has been taken offline, after a German software company obtained a court order against...
[August 2, 2005, 15:40]
Palm backs off fan sites
News For example, in 1998, the US's Prema Toy Company dropped an action against a 12-year-old boy who used the "pokey.org" domain name after receiving bad press. Schechner was initially approached by Palm's lawyers about three weeks ago, but they have...
[September 26, 2001, 14:51]
Hate site distorts King's dream
News Attempting to seize the domain through the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organisation charged with overseeing the Internet, would also be unsuccessful, according to ICANN spokesperson Pam Brewster.
[January 26, 2000, 12:20]
SCO unveils code 'evidence'
Talkback Was the code ever released into Public Domain making it free and uncopyrightable? A small list is available at "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html". This article fails to mention that there are many types of open source software licenses.
[October 1, 2003, 19:11]
