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AOL 5.0 May Be Harmful to Net Connections
Internet users who downloaded and installed the latest version...
Network Solutions To Sell Ads on Whois Page
Reversing an earlier policy, Network Solutions plans to open...
Get Paid to Be a Know-it-All
Experienced Internet users know that answers to just about...
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Worm Turns Sun Against Microsoft
Sun and Microsoft may compete bitterly in the Internet server marketplace,
but to eradicate a new and rapidly spreading malicious worm, Sun Solaris
and Microsoft IIS administrators will have to cooperate closely, security
experts...
Security Expert’s Site Knocked Offline By Attack
Victims of distributed denial-of-service attacks are usually reluctant to
admit they've been hit, let alone provide specific technical details about
the attacks. But Gibson Research
Corporation president Steve Gibson said Monday that he intends...
Virtual Skies: Not So Friendly
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines filed a false advertising and
unfair competition lawsuit against the new Orbitz.com travel Web site, which
is sponsored by a consortium of rival airlines including American, United,
Northwest, Delta and...
First Remote IIS 5 Root Exploit In The Wild
Less than 24 hours after the publication of a severe, system-level security
flaw
in Microsoft's IIS 5.0, source code to a program that exploits the hole and
gives a remote user full control of...
Land Rush Is Near for .INFO and .BIZ
After months of delay, the land rush for two new global top-level domains, .BIZ and .INFO, is
expected to gain momentum next week.
Afilias LLC, the registry for the new,
unrestricted .INFO domain, has completed...
Curador’s Victims Included ‘Bill J. Clinton’
Raphael Gray, the Welsh computer attacker who is awaiting sentencing for a
string of online shopping site break-ins, counts Bill Gates among his
victims. But an investigation by InternetNews has revealed that Microsoft's
chairman...
British Court Close To Sending Curador to Jail
A Crown Court judge in Wales indicated that he intends to sentence teenage
hacker Raphael Gray to prison, pending the outcome of medical tests.
After arguments from both sides at a sentencing hearing Friday, Judge...
MP3 Encoders Ripping Along Without Microsoft
The music industry and its technology partners have tried unsuccessfully
for years to unseat easily-duplicated MP3s as the de facto standard for
downloadable music files. But Microsoft's decision to include a crippled
MP3 encoder in its new...
