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ICANN turns on IPv6 addresses
News On Monday, ICANN, the organisation that maintains the internet's addressing systems, said it had for the first time added IPv6 addresses to the appropriate files and databases on six of the world's 13 root server networks.
[February 5, 2008, 13:26]
Mac hacking competition winner mocks Apple security
News On 22 February, the Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set up his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and...
[March 7, 2006, 9:00]
Key Internet server moved for security
News The computer, known as the J root server, was previously located in the same building, and connected to the Internet through the same subnet, as its companion, the A root server. That group, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
[November 8, 2002, 7:42]
Key Internet server moved amid security concerns
News The computer, known as the J root server, was previously located in the same building, and connected to the Internet through the same subnet, as its companion, the A root server. That group, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
[November 11, 2002, 7:39]
EMC offers tool for managing virtual systems
News A core feature is root-cause analysis, which works on VMware ESX server hosts, virtual machines and applications, EMC said. Root-cause analysis is a tool that can examine a physical or virtual server to try to establish why it has had a problem or...
[March 11, 2009, 16:17]
New shield repelled internet backbone attack
News The internet continued to run but it was a wake-up call for the root server operators", who set out to develop Anycast, ICANN said. The incident will be discussed at a meeting of DNS root server operators later this month, the organisation said.
[March 12, 2007, 8:24]
Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure review
Reviews The first wizard screen asked us for the source server and its root — or main system admin — password. Most people consider it inadvisable to allow the root user to log in directly to a server from a remote connection, and the default configuration...
[August 28, 2007, 15:33]
Attack on domain name servers fails
News The so-called distributed denial-of-service attack leveled a barrage of data at the 13 domain-name service root servers beginning around 1 pm PDT on Monday and apparently is ongoing, according to Internet performance measurement company Matrix...
[October 23, 2002, 7:46]
European Net registrars boycott ICANN
News The Internet Software Consortium, an open-source development group that operates one of the 13 root servers, said its root server answers more than 272 million queries per day. Black said the European registries are asking ICANN to establish...
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
Hacker tracking site falls prey to ThePike
News According to Alldas.de, the hacker said in his message: "I had no intention to clear your database or to root your server. However, the administrators said that after examining their log files, the hacker had in fact attempted to gain root access...
[June 27, 2001, 12:04]
Installing and using phpMyAdmin to manage MySQL databases
News To get up and running quickly, and to be able to edit all the databases on the server, you'll need to provide root credentials: cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql'; cfg['Servers'][$i...
[December 23, 2005, 12:10]
Networks crippled by worms' onslaught
News Every time the mini-mail server sends off a copy of the virus, it looks up data from the DNS root servers, the authoritative address books of the Internet. The ISP said it saw a dramatic increase in the number of mail-record lookups processed by...
[August 22, 2003, 8:45]
A beginner's guide to NDS
News The root object is created for you automatically when NDS is installed on the server during installation. You can create three types of objects at the root of the tree: the organisation object, the country object, and the alias object.
[March 25, 2003, 9:35]
Mercury to root out e-business problems
News Unlike root cause services from system management companies such as Tivoli and BMC, the Mercury offering diagnoses problems in the user experience of the site, rather than problems apparent in the server, according to European product marketing...
[December 13, 2001, 17:17]
US Report: Microsoft, BugNet at odds over FrontPage 'bug'
News According to BugNet, the problem "can cause Microsoft FrontPage 98 to erase a user's entire hard drive, including all data, all installed programs and even the OS itself" if a user of the Web authoring tool creates a "disk-based Web" in the root...
[May 6, 1998, 8:11]
Global Web: An Internet governance run-down
News If the root server operators receive a set of top-level domains they find irrational, only the US-based ones can be forced by US law to use it. The US government — through ICANN — controls the master database currently used by every root server.
[November 17, 2005, 15:50]
VeriSign spreads the DNS risk
News Over the next year, VeriSign aims to place additional replicas of one of its DNS root servers - kown as the 'J' - in up to 100 data centres around the world, said Aristotle Balogh, VeriSign's senior vice-president of operations and infrastructure.
[May 20, 2005, 16:05]
Use VSFTP for a secure FTP server
News On many systems, this user will already exist.chown root.root /var/ftpChanges ownership of the /var/ftp directory to the root user.chmod og-w /var/ftpRemoves the write permission from others and groups.
[January 22, 2003, 9:37]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment As with any GNU/Linux box, I can securely SSH into my user account (or the root account since I am the system administrator) from anywhere in the world. Unix and Unix like systems are inherently secure because root and user(s) are firmly separate.
[May 27, 2007, 15:25]
FTP holes give attackers an easy way in
News FTP has been around a long time, so they use the same root code base," Magdych said. Systems administrators looking to protect their systems can do so by attacking the root problem, Magdych said. The vulnerability occurs in a function that allows...
[April 10, 2001, 12:34]
