Brian McWilliams

Police in Wales have arrested Curador, a hacker suspected of stealing thousands of credit cards from nine e-commerce sites and posted many of them on the Web. The FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center confirmed Friday that Welsh police have taken into custody two 18-year-old men, both residents of Dyfed-Powsys, Wales and presumed to be Curador […]

Many of those looking to take advantage of a Thursday promotion to register free domains were met with access denials blamed on a glitch in Network Solutions’ registry. RegisterFREE.com was set up to register domain names free for one hour Thursday by NameEngine Inc. NameEngine is accredited by the International Corp. for Assigned Names and […]

Is time–or more importantly, money–running out for Internet firms? Pegasus Research International got widespread attention Monday for its prediction that at least 51 publicly-traded Internet companies–including some big names like drkoop.com and CDnow — will burn through their cash supplies within the next 12 months. The dry-up dates from Pegasus were based on the assumption […]

A new anti-snooping utility launched Monday promises to be as controversial as the adware programs it attempts to defeat. Responding to recent concerns that some ad-supported Internet software is spying on users while they’re online, Gibson Research Corp. has released a free, preview version of the OptOut Internet spyware detection and removal utility. The initial […]

Curador, the online credit-card thief who has penetrated the security mechanisms of several e-commerce sites, is master of his own domain again. The cracker, who has been posting thousands of stolen credit cards at a succession of personal Web sites for the past six weeks, opened up shop Friday at a new location. Curador, who […]

CDNOW, Time Warner Inc. and Sony Corp. Monday called off the pending merger of CDNOW and Columbia House. Instead, Columbia House co-owners Time Warner and Sony have agreed to invest $51 million in CDNOW, by providing an additional $21 million in cash as an equity investment and converting an existing $30 million short-term loan commitment […]

Cable Internet provider Excite@Home is facing the ire of dissatisfied subscribers frustrated to the point of seeking legal recourse to get the firm to fix its faulty e-mail delivery system. Over the past few weeks @Home (ATHM) e-mail services have been floundering in the U.S. and Canada. Throughout North America @Home subscribers are reporting problems […]

Curador, the cracker who has stolen credit cards from at least eight small e-commerce sites and then posted them online, is growing more brazen by the minute. In an interview with InternetNews Wednesday, Curador claimed he has hit five new Web firms and will soon publish hundreds more stolen credit card numbers at a new […]

Is Michael Robertson, MP3.com CEO, a cybersquatter? Yes, according to a ruling last month by the World Intellectual Property Organization, in one of the first of what may be a series of controversial rulings under ICANN’s new Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy. The panel from WIPO, one of three organizations authorized by ICANN to arbitrate domain […]

Calling the move a consolidation of trust infrastructure, VeriSign Tuesday bought former domain monopoly holder Network Solutions Inc. for $21 billion in stock. VeriSign will issue 2.15 shares of stock for each NSI share, prior NSI’s 2-for-1 stock split scheduled for March 10. The transaction, which still needs shareholder approval, is expected to close in […]

Just who is Internet Solutions? And why are they calling me at 3 a.m.? That’s the question hundreds of people are asking after being rousted from their sleep in recent weeks by an automated telemarketing call from the Web hosting firm. The recorded message offers a free, 450 MHz computer and Web site design in […]

Undaunted by U.S. government vows to crack down on those who pilfer credit card numbers from Web sites, a man going by the name of “Curador” breached SalesGate.com in the latest of a rash of cracks made by the hacker who claims he is trying to help companies by illuminating weaknesses in their security systems. […]