Lycos zombie army takes Web sites offline
Talkback To the previous poster: You are an idiot if you use this screensaver. You are allowing someone else to use your computer to launch an attack against unknown third parties. Have you considered any of the following:
[December 2, 2004, 14:34]
Symantec: Phishers targeting social-networking sites
News The report states that "66 percent of phishing attacks in the US were directed towards social-networking sites". Symantec Australia managing director Craig Scroggie said social-networking sites are a treasure trove of personal data, listing...
[April 9, 2008, 8:12]
In-house Web sites put design firms on the run
News The report is based on 250 in-depth interviews with recent purchasers of corporate Web design, plus a survey of over 7,000 other corporate sites. The remaining businesses are using Web designers to create the pages for their Internet site, said the...
[August 12, 1997, 15:54]
72 per cent of US business Web users go to porn sites
News And if your company is a lot like others, your boss also found out that the hottest Web surfing was found at pornographic Internet sites. Perhaps even more surprising - or perhaps not - was the high frequency of computer users employed by...
[June 26, 1997, 10:28]
Feds weed out drug paraphernalia sites
Talkback this is obvoulsley an atempt to stop drug smoking and stop people who want to smoke un-Corpurated mariHuanna. While i sit at home smoking my herb i'v been thinking that this is a GIANT waste of tax payers money and that taking away a natrual right...
[November 9, 2003, 20:34]
Lycos zombie army takes Web sites offline
Talkback So many people are bleating about "not retaliating against the poor spammers". Hey, the parasitic spammers are denying internet users the freedom to use their own e-mail accounts we pay for. Are we supposed to all sit back and wait for the US...
[December 2, 2004, 12:52]
Are portal sites losing their magic?
News Traffic from U.S.homes to portal sites rose by 5 percent from March to May, the company said in published reports. Now more users are flocking to the Internet again -- but they're going directly to a variety of specialty sites, with such topics as...
[July 5, 1999, 8:44]
Salesforce Sites lets businesses build in the cloud
News Launched on Monday, Force.com Sites essentially uses the Force.com cloud platform to support customer websites and online applications. As Sites runs on Force.com, the applications and websites can be linked to CRM data already hosted on the platform.
[June 16, 2009, 8:13]
Mobile Web sites face stringent standards regulation
News mTLD, the operator of the .mobi domain space, has stipulated that anyone wanting to register for a domain must abide by a code of practice.mTLD announced today that it has joined the W3C and will be using many of the consortium's best practices...
[October 25, 2005, 11:00]
'Critical' MS server flaw may affect few sites
News More than 4 million sites are hosted on Microsoft's Internet Information Service (IIS) software, according to Netcraft. Netcraft disputed this however, noting that tests of hundreds of servers conducted by the company's security business over the...
[November 29, 2002, 15:08]
Feds weed out drug paraphernalia sites
Talkback I think that the DEA should stop trying to shut down all of the shops on the internet and around the us. If people want to buy tobacco rolling papers and roach clips and whatnot, i dont know why we wouldn't let them.
[October 7, 2003, 15:27]
E-commerce sites at risk as hackers expose IBM hole
News Two hackers have published a program that breaks the encryption-protecting passwords on servers running older versions of IBM's e-commerce software, highlighting the possibility that dozens -- if not hundreds -- of sites have been left open to...
[March 9, 2001, 7:55]
Netsky attacks: Four sites down, one to go
News Earlier this week, file-sharing Web sites Kazaa and eDonkey and three other Web sites were bracing themselves for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched by variants of the Netsky worm.
[April 8, 2004, 14:35]
UK police chief: Shut down 'abhorrent' Web sites
Talkback This is a bit 'rich' and borders on 'hypcocracy' from an establishment and successive governments who have continued to water down the morale fabric of this country and now want to vet everything that we say and do.
[February 25, 2004, 8:53]
Weather sites ride heat wave
News Weather Web sites in the UK saw traffic levels rise almost as fast as the mercury on Wednesday as they quenched people's thirst for information on just how hot the country was getting. BBC Weather was the 23rd most visited UK site on Wednesday...
[August 7, 2003, 17:10]
Mainstream Web sites spreading back-door infections
Talkback Mozilla or Opera or stay off the internet is the only alternative to IE? Have you been so completely zombie brainwashed by the microsoft borg that you no longer even remember about the existence of netscape?
[July 2, 2004, 15:18]
Webmaster accused of running 'terrorist' sites
Talkback And when are the Americans going to hand over suspected IRA terrorists to the UK. Or does, as is suspected, this agreement we have with them only work one way?
[July 25, 2006, 12:36]
Power failure knocks Web sites offline
Talkback I agree that power took much longer to restore than the 5 minutes Redbus are implying. We and many other customers didn't get back online until after 4pm
[March 2, 2005, 19:05]
Power failure knocks Web sites offline
Talkback The power failure at RedBus HEX also damaged lots of equipment including power supplies for many servers, routers, switches and power distribution systems. Most power wasn't actually available to customers until around 1pm, some longer.
[March 2, 2005, 17:37]



