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Netcraft warns of phishing flaw on Yahoo HotJobs
News Yahoo's HotJobs site is vulnerable to a phishing-based attack that can give an attacker access to a Yahoo member's mail and other personal accounts, UK network service firm Netcraft said on Monday, and someone has been taking advantage of it.
[October 28, 2008, 7:23]
Netcraft extends phishing protection to Firefox users
News Internet services company Netcraft has released a version of its toolbar for Firefox. The Netcraft Toolbar blocks phishing Web sites that have been reported by other users. More than 7,000 phishing sites have been detected and blocked since then...
[May 26, 2005, 10:35]
Netcraft plug-in aims to thwart phishers
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 Web sites are running, stated in a posting: "The Netcraft Toolbar...
[December 31, 2004, 9:40]
Phishing hole 'left open' by banks
News An easily remedied Web site loophole may be leaving banks and other companies that do business online more susceptible to phishing attacks, according to Netcraft. The majority of phishing Web sites are only semibelievable, and end users are...
[March 15, 2005, 7:55]
Flaws in Apache 2.0 for Windows may hit takeup
News The latest report from UK-based Netcraft found that more than 16,000 Windows-based sites running the Apache server 2.0 software may be vulnerable to security flaws that have emerged since the Windows release of Apache 2.0.
[March 4, 2003, 16:35]
Windows Server 2003 passes Solaris 9
News The latest monthly Web server survey from Netcraft, published on Sunday, found that the number of Web site hostnames running Windows Server 2003 passed Solaris 9 around the end of March. Server 2003 now powers nearly 30,000 sites compared with just...
[April 14, 2003, 15:48]
Blue Security attack linked to blog crashes
News Internet security company Netcraft said on Thursday that Blue Security temporarily dealt with the distributed denial of service (DDoS) siege mounted by disgruntled spammers by redirecting traffic to its blog, knocking out Six Apart's TypePad and...
[May 4, 2006, 18:00]
IT 'key to productivity'
News If the size of the World Wide Web was measured by the number of domain names then it is growing faster than at any time in its history, according to figures released by research and analysis firm Netcraft last week.
[October 10, 2005, 17:25]
The incredible shrinking Internet
News The Web Server Survey from Internet consultancy Netcraft found that the number of Web sites dropped by 182,142 from November to December last year. Netcraft attributed last month's drop to the decline in new domain name registrations; it also found...
[January 3, 2002, 9:32]
Apache booms in 2003
News The Apache Web server fared well in 2003, growing far more rapidly than its nearest rival, Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS), to remain by far the most widely used Web server on the Internet, according to new figures from Netcraft.
[January 12, 2004, 16:45]
Web ripe for massive worm attack
News The Web is currently more vulnerable to attack than ever before, as a result of several serious security flaws for different server applications being published within a few days of one another, according to a survey from British network security...
[July 1, 2002, 12:21]
Microsoft Web servers gain market share
News In a monthly survey of more than 38 million Internet-connected computers conducted by Netcraft, Microsoft market share rose nearly 2 million to 12.9 million computers, a market share of 34.02, a rise of 4.89 percent.
[April 2, 2002, 16:51]
Fedora takes off as Red Hat declines
News Internet services company Netcraft analysed around four million Web sites to find what Linux distribution each site's Web server was running. Colin Phipps, a developer at Netcraft, said that usage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been dropping off...
[March 14, 2005, 17:15]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
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.
[December 6, 2004, 16:05]
Perens pushes for open source domain parking
News Perens announced the move after Microsoft's Internet Information Services software saw its share of the Web server market jump by 4.7 percent in April 2006, according to figures from Netcraft, which monitors the Web server market.
[April 18, 2006, 17:35]
MS moving Hotmail to Win2000 servers
News According to the market watchers at Netcraft -- an Internet consultancy based in Bath in the UK -- Microsoft finally has commenced the long-awaited Hotmail migration. At present, five to ten percent of Hotmail requests are being served by Windows...
[August 3, 2000, 11:17]
Corporates undeterred by Linux fuss
News The survey was conducted by research firm Netcraft. In the last two months, Linux had a net gain of 100 places among 24,000 Web sites run by 1,500 large companies across the globe, Netcraft said. Many analysts speculated that SCO's behavior might...
[July 25, 2003, 7:41]
Windows Server 2003 gaining sites from Linux
News The number of active Web sites hosted on Server 2003 tripled to 88,400 in the three months since launch, according to Netcraft, which monitors server usage. Microsoft will take some considerable encouragement at the number of sites that have...
[July 18, 2003, 11:19]
Viruses target MyDoom infections
News The re-invigorated attack may be responsible for making Microsoft's site inaccessible on Sunday night and early Monday morning, according to Internet performance measurement firm Netcraft. However, Microsoft had some Web site problems early on...
[February 10, 2004, 7:15]
SCO files suit in Linux-using court
News According to Internet services company Netcraft, the US District Court, District of Nevada's Web site has been using Linux with a Lotus Domino database since November 2002 -- after it switched over from Windows NT4.
[March 3, 2004, 16:55]
