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Mozilla hits back at browser security claim
Talkback To Ollie Whitehouse: Whitehouse? Whitehouse, what an unexpected answer that was. Whitehouse. You have given us the answer you didn't want to give. By saying that people shouldn't switch their browser because popular browsers are or will be unsafe...
[September 20, 2005, 22:59]
Porn goes public
News Whitehouse.com is close to finishing work on an S1 registration statement in preparation for an initial public offering in November, according to the company's CEO Dan Parisi. The company also disclosed that it had resolved a legal dispute with...
[October 14, 1999, 10:26]
'Code Red': So long, for now
News System administrators have 10 days to fix nearly 300,000 Web servers infected by the Code Red worm before the malicious program halts its largely unsuccessful but ongoing attack on Whitehouse.gov and starts spreading again.
[July 23, 2001, 8:43]
Software tool steals data via Bluetooth
News The tool, Red Fang, was created by Ollie Whitehouse, a UK-based researcher with computer security firm @Stake, to stress the dangers of running badly configured Bluetooth devices. Potter improved on Whitehouse's program by making it more user...
[August 15, 2003, 10:35]
White House confirms third DoS attack in a month
News The hacker attempt on whitehouse.gov, which crashed the site, lasted from 2pm EDT until after 8pm EDT. On 4 May, the whitehouse.gov site was taken down for more than three hours by a similar attack, purported to be linked to a string of Web site...
[May 25, 2001, 12:52]
Web worm targets White House
News As for the instructions, the Code Red worm was written to flood the Whitehouse.gov site with a massive amount of data, overwhelming it to the point where it could not be accessed. Because of Thursday's change, however, people who went to Whitehouse...
[July 20, 2001, 10:16]
Microsoft blocks Vista driver 'hack' tool
News Whitehouse said on 27 July: "In order for Microsoft to mitigate the risk of malicious code utilising this signed driver to load their own, they are going to have to revoke the signing certificate. It's punching a big hole through the wall and...
[August 3, 2007, 14:17]
Trademark suit pits porn against profits
News Parisi, a former environmental consultant based in Seacaucus, New Jersey is also the brains behind whitehouse.com -- the porn site you'll see if you make a wrong turn on the way to President Clinton's official online home, whitehouse.gov.
[May 28, 1999, 9:03]
So... is the open source model broken or not?
Blog The day that article came out, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehouse told us more or less the same thing: "If all we did was give support for free software we would be out of business," he told a group of journalists in London on Monday.
[December 4, 2008, 9:03]
Hackers shy away from DDoS attacks
News DDoS is a risky business," Ollie Whitehouse, a Symantec research scientist told ZDNet UK. It's very easy to jump on a blog with an established base and spam that," said Whitehouse. The quantity of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched for...
[May 3, 2007, 12:52]
Global alert for next round of Code Red
News It would be pretty easy to send it somewhere other than whitehouse.gov, for example. On the 19th of the month, the worm is set to switch to attack mode and barrage the whitehouse.gov Internet domain with large packets of data.
[July 31, 2001, 8:48]
Cybersquatting profits from online brands
News The US government has even fallen victim to the ploy, with users who visit whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.org being shown a porn site rather than the latest government policy. When it comes to corporate branding, imitation is not considered...
[January 16, 2003, 9:07]
Google cuts out the browser
News For example, to customise the Deskbar to search Whitehouse.gov, people must first search the government site using any keyword, then copy the Web address of the results page. Here's the tricky part: Users must delete the keyword within the address...
[November 7, 2003, 9:35]
US President Obama Media Aggregator
Downloads All Audio is available free at whitehouse.gov as RSS feeds. This application is a simple RSS aggregator of talks, news and other audio events of the US President. This application was designed to provide easier access to the following events...
[December 17, 2008, 8:56]
Mozilla hits back at browser security claim
News Ollie Whitehouse, a researcher at Symantec, thought that the results were surprising but were due to a number of factors, primarily the short uptake time for Firefox and the fact that it was open source.
[September 20, 2005, 13:10]
White House News Alerts
Downloads With Whitehouse News Alerts keep up to date with the goings on at the White House while you're on the go. Always know the latest on Barack and Michelle Obama as well as Joe Biden and the latest policy decisions.
[September 2, 2009, 12:39]
Schmidt: Users need more browser control
Articles We have fallen in love with Active-X and JavaScript, says ex-Whitehouse security advisor Howard Schmidt, but to close security vulnerabilities users need more control of how browsers interact with the underlying operating system.
[November 10, 2009, 10:57]
Weighing Bush's mixed technology legacy
News Months after being sworn in as US president, George W Bush sat down with reporters and his wife, Laura, for a technology-themed event: a relaunch of the Whitehouse.gov website, which previously had been rather dilapidated.
[January 20, 2009, 12:37]
Madonna wants 'her' name back
News Pop star Madonna has filed a complaint with a United Nations organisation to wrest the domain name Madonna.com from the clutches of Whitehouse.com owner Dan Parisi. The Material Girl wants her name back.
[August 21, 2000, 10:06]
IE8 release candidate expected for Monday
Blog The news was mentioned by-the-bye in a post about the rendering of the whitehouse.gov website in the Windows 7 version of IE8 beta 2: According to Microsoft's Internet Explorer blog, RC1 of IE8 is almost ready to go, albeit not for Windows 7 testers.
[January 23, 2009, 12:15]
