Jim Wagner

Macromedia, Inc. , security officials plugged up a potential breach in old versions of its JRun software Thursday, preventing malicious hackers (a.k.a. crackers) from remotely exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability. JRun 3.0 and JRun 3.1 are the software developer’s flagship Web services platform for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. Companies running the software on […]

Civic and educational organizations around the U.S. sent an open letter to a top National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) official Wednesday, calling on the government to hold an auction for policy management of the Internet’s biggest domain extensions in September 2003. Harold Feld, the Media Access Project associate director and a North American representative […]

SBC Communications agreed Tuesday evening to pay a $3.6 million fine to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for errors found in its long distance applications in several states last year. The FCC found that SBC failed to provide electronic access on its operations support system (OSS) to competitors looking for information on the advanced services […]

Flat revenue growth is the best Nortel Networks Corp. officials expect in the second quarter of 2002, prompting the Internet equipment maker to make cuts in one its least-productive divisions. Nortel took the proactive step of cutting 3,500 jobs in its optical long-haul division and recording a $600 million charge in the second quarter, rather […]

Selling pieces of the Global Crossing pie might be in the carrier’s best interests — not the company as a whole — executives announced Tuesday, though they are considering all options in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. John Legere, Global Crossing chief executive officer, said several of its entities, namely Global Marine Systems and its […]

Controversial Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President and Chief Executive Officer Stuart Lynn announced Tuesday his intention to retire when his term is due up next year. Lynn has been the subject of considerable ire among advocates for a “free” Internet. In the almost two years Lynn has been chief of ICANN, […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., sided with incumbent telephone companies Friday, reversing the line-sharing requirements meant to spur competitive availability of broadband Internet services nationwide. The ruling is consistent with the new administration at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which feels it’s more important for digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable high-speed […]

Hoping to get the last dollar possible for their once-dominant Internet service provider (ISP), Excite@Home owners are putting most of the company’s tangible assets up for sale during a two-day online auction next week. Wednesday and Thursday are your last chances to buy everything from an Excite@Home coffee mug to the cafeteria where they found […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is getting ready to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) next month to seek comment on the commercialization of upper millimeter-wave spectrum, a move that opens the airwaves to multi-gigabit-per-second Internet speeds. Spectrum for U.S. businesses in the 71-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz and 92-95 GHz bands is under consideration, […]

Qwest Communications Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Nacchio put time in for spin doctoring Wednesday evening, telling investors and analysts he has narrowed down the number of bidders for the carrier’s directory service to six and expects to reap $8 billion to $10 billion from the sale. He and other executives at the financially […]

Anyone who’s had an e-mail account for more than a week knows the extent spam has permeated the Internet lifestyle, but the actions of over-zealous “spam cops” are shutting down and taking off-line hundreds, perhaps thousands, of legitimate businesses. Blacklists, the controversial method of filtering out IP addresses of known spammers and their ilk, have […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) needs better WHOIS information to track down Internet scams, one of its top directors told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property Wednesday. But finding a solution is a conundrum registrars and registries won’t be able to resolve for some time, if ever, said Internet Corporation […]