DNS Servers 'vulnerable To Attack'
News Opening a name server for zone transfers does very often expose an excessive amount of information about "secret" hosts, internal hosts, gateway configuration, and much more. Internet Systems Consortium's BIND software, which performs the domain...
[October 25, 2005, 17:55]
Microsoft Get Back To Baseline On Security
News It'll do this for the machine it runs on, or others by IP address, Netbios name, machine name or domain name -- administrator privilege is needed to scan a machine, but otherwise there is no limit on what can be scanned.
[May 9, 2002, 16:39]
WITC Opens Debate Through Online Forum
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. A lot of the discussion will be focussing on the social impact of technology, and we are opening up the...
[January 7, 2002, 11:59]
Domain Group Revolts Against Icann
News During the opening day of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' quarterly meeting, a working group of the operators of the country-code top level domains (ccTLDs), such as .uk or .fr, voted unanimously to pull out of Icann's...
[June 4, 2001, 9:22]
MSN Update Leaked
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. Viewing the message in a preview pane without opening it is enough to trigger the Web beacon.
[April 3, 2003, 15:35]
Fuming On The Platform? Railway Complaints Accepted Here.
News We are confident there will be no problems in terms of the domain name," said Finch. Currently accepting complaints for online publication at the site's opening, the Yorkshire-based Internet consultants who founded the site are "not affiliated to...
[November 11, 1998, 15:32]
Start-ups Back Linux For Data Centres
News CoroSoft's suite includes modules to control Web servers, which send out Web pages across the Internet and for Domain Name System servers -- the providers of numerical addresses that let computers can find each other over the Internet.
[January 22, 2003, 10:14]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Like the other OEM customer, my contact refuses to release his name into the public domain, but he's cross, all right: "We can't launch any servers, because the server motherboard isn't ready! On opening up his files, he finds that there are no VAT...
[May 10, 1997, 8:00]
UK Advertising Authority Introduces Anti-spam Rules
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. Email marketing must also be clearly identifiable without opening the message.
[March 5, 2003, 14:27]
Movielink: Bring On The Experts
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. The venture's grand opening has been waylaid since earlier this year, when it named media industry...
[July 11, 2002, 8:29]
FTC Finally Realises That Spammers Lie
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. Porn spammers were found to be especially fond of this tactic, inducing people to unexpectedly face an...
[April 30, 2003, 10:48]
Consumer-rights Guru Proposes Limits To ICANN
News ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, was established last year to phase out the government's involvement in the domain name system and to end the monopoly held by Network Solutions, by opening up the registration of such...
[September 28, 1999, 9:40]
Yahoo! Pulls Remote Village From Wilderness
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. has installed a computer in the pub for residents to use free during pub opening hours.
[December 2, 2002, 14:33]
MP3.com Enters Dangerous Territory
News This is opening the floodgates and if I was one of the major content owners I would talk to the ISPs to have the domain name blacklisted. Despite claims by MP3.com that the software verifies that users actually own the CD to be recorded and that a...
[January 14, 2000, 6:00]
Start-up Bridges Instant Messaging Gap
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. have amassed large enough user bases that opening up these networks would not be feasible without a...
[March 26, 2003, 7:57]
Microsoft Gets Serious About Security
News The company's Web sites disappeared earlier this month following technical difficulties with its DNS (Domain Name System) servers, before again being driven offline by a denial of service (DoS) attack launched by malicious computer hackers.
[February 16, 2001, 15:12]
VeriSign Splits Off Domain Registrar
News And the company is offering 1,000 frequent flier miles on Delta, United, American, and US Airways to customers who register a new domain name, renew or transfer an existing one, or sign up for its new Web site services.
[January 6, 2003, 12:40]
Paid Online Content Gaining Ground
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. Consumers are slowly opening their pocketbooks for paid content," Jupiter Research director David Card...
[March 25, 2003, 10:49]
