IDG News Service-The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has proposed holding an old-fashioned raffle to determine which applications for new top-level domains should be handled first.To make the lottery legal,the ...
IDG News Service-The notorious malware known as the Conficker worm still infects computers,a sort of wild horse with no rider,but investigators appear no closer to finding its creator. Also known as"Downandup,"Conficker was discovered in ...
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Security researchers have identified a botnet controlled by its creators over the Tor anonymity network. It's likely that other botnet operators will adopt this approach, according to the team from vulnerability assessment and penetration ...
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it would take up to December to come up with a process for handling the large number of applications for gTLDs (generic top-level domains). There are close to 2,000 ...
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A security scare for Microsoft users hit late yesterday, after vulnerability management company Rapid7's Metasploit penetration tool project discovered an Internet Explorer exploit that is said to affect all browsers earlier than IE9, and ...
The planned introduction of more than 1,900 new generic top-level domain (gTLD) names by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) could have security implications, researchers have warned. The plan to allow web ...
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Cyber criminals are increasingly using .eu domain names in their attack campaigns, according to data from multiple security companies. “Numerous malicious .eu domains have been registered during November which are being used to ...
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IDG News Service-The Romanian domain names of Google,Yahoo,Microsoft,Kaspersky Lab and other companies were hijacked on Wednesday and were redirected to a hacked server in the Netherlands. The hijacking occurred at the DNS(Domain Name ...
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Icann, the organisation that manages internet protocol numbers and the domain name system root, is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid online technology. ...
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ICANN has published the list of companies bidding for new domain names made available by the internet organisation. A significant 1,930 submissions were made to ICANN for the generic top level domains (gTLD) which will enable companies to ...
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