Jim Wagner

The board of directors at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the next implementation of VeriSign’s Waitlisting Service (WLS), a controversial domain name service that has sparked a number of lawsuits. During the last day of its week long meeting in Rome Saturday, a majority of ICANN board members voted […]

The Java Community Process (JCP) has approved a standard for building Web applications at the presentation layer, but the reaction of some programmers so far is that it adds another layer of complexity while delivering nothing they can use. Java Specification Request (JSR) 127, JavaServer Faces (JSF), was initiated in May 2001 in order to […]

Figuring they can save money using peer-to-peer technology (P2P), alternative operating system developers Lindows is giving customers 50 percent discounts if they download using BitTorrent. The San Diego-based company is knocking $24.95 off the price of its $49.95 operating system if they use BitTorrent, a P2P technology created in the wake of Napster. Unlike Napster, […]

Officials at Go Daddy Software, one of the largest registrars, are set to give the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) $100,000 to fund that organization’s legal battle against VeriSign . The Scottsdale, Ariz., company announced the pledge Wednesday morning, as well as an open letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) […]

Security experts at the FreeBSD Project, the open-source operating system group, are asking users to patch their systems against a memory buffer vulnerability that opens the doors to a distributed denial of service . iDEFENSE originally discovered the exploit Jan. 22 and contacted the organization about the vulnerability, which attacks open TCP ports with out-of-sequence […]

UPDATE: The SCO Group will file lawsuits against two commercial Linux operating system users Tuesday night and announce their names Wednesday, officials said. Company spokesperson Blake Stowell told internetnews.com the lawsuits had not been filed yet and would not be filed in Utah but would be before the courts closed for the day. At press […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) continues its tri-annual get-together in Rome this week, as Internet enthusiasts, big-name corporations and government entities discuss the organization’s plans to expand its presence globally. On tap for the week are discussions ranging anywhere from Internet governance to IPv6 to individual representation within the organization. ICANN […]

The latest “Bagle” worm is something corporate network users definitely didn’t order this morning, but it’s the return of the Netsky worm that has many security experts worried. First appearing Friday afternoon, the five Bagle worms — Bagle.A, Bagle.B, Bagle.C, Bagle.D, Bagle.E and Bagle.F — wriggle into e-mail in-boxes via a password-protected .zip file, which […]

Developers at Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM have released what they say is a first-of-its-kind structural analysis tool for Java architects. Now available for download at its alphaWorks Web site for emerging technologies, the tool lets the people who design and build new Java applications test the code for architectural integrity. In some ways, the tool resembles […]

Sigaba officials announced a partnership with e-mail security experts ProofPoint Monday in order to provide an integrated secure messaging platform and in the process knit up a third leg of security support for enterprise customers. The partnership combines the San Mateo, Calif.-based Sigaba’s (otherwise known as Secure Data in Motion) Secure Statements and Secure Instant […]

Network security firm iDEFENSE is warning of a vulnerability that grabs a Web surfer’s login and password keystrokes in Internet Explorer (IE). The exploit, which affects IE 5 and 6 running on Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional, bypasses a Microsoft restriction that prevents multiple frames on one Web page running from two different […]

Lawyers for VeriSign , registry for the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) and the largest registrar in the world, filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Thursday. The lawsuit contends ICANN broke its contract with VeriSign when it prohibited and delayed the registrar from providing valuable Internet […]