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  • Merged banks' web domains cybersquatted

    Internet addresses corresponding to proposed bank mergers have been snapped up by cybersquatters, with the BBC reporting that domain names for the merged Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Lloyds TS...18 Sep 2008

  • Top 10 IT photo stories of the year

    1. The Steve Jobs story Shortly after stepping down as Apple CEO, Steve Jobs sadly passed away. Jobs was the genius behind the products that have made Apple the world's most valuable computer compa...28 Dec 2011

  • All citizens can now buy a .eu domain

    All European Union citizens can now buy an internet domain bearing the .eu suffix.07 Apr 2006

  • New domains are not a solution

    The Web moved one step closer to getting more domain names this month, with the selection of seven new top-level domain (TLD)...29 Nov 2000

  • Consortium hired to manage .eu top-level domain

    The European Commission has confirmed the appointment of a Belgian-led consortium called Eurid to manage the .eu top-level domain. The domain will be running by the end of the year, and it will sit...23 May 2003

  • Internet is shrinking, says survey

    The total number of Web sites on the Internet is falling as domains registered during the Internet boom of late 1999 are not...04 Jan 2002

  • Sclavos's VeriSign departure leaves many questions unanswered

    Speculation continued to swirl in the wake of Stratton Sclavos's resignation as VeriSign Inc.'s CEO earlier this week, while some industry observers pondered the dot-com veteran's legacy and VeriSi...01 Jun 2007

  • Microsoft investigates new Word zero-day

    Microsoft is investigating reports of attacks against a newly-disclosed, unpatched flaw in Microsoft Word. Attackers who successfully exploit it could run malicious code on a victim's computer. "Th...24 Jan 2007

  • Marketing campaign can't mask difficult times for the national programme for IT

    The government's Connecting for Health agency has launched a publicity campaign for IT modernisation of the NHS, but major questions remain unanswered Connecting for Health, an agency of the Depart...26 Sep 2005

  • Experts look ahead to tomorrow's Blaster attack

    Security experts are questioning whether a massive denial-of-service attack from machines affected by the W32.Blaster internet worm, scheduled for Saturday, will succeed. The worm, also known as th...15 Aug 2003

  • VeriSign sets its sights on telecoms market

    VeriSign's chief executive has outlined a vision which would see his company at the intersection of Internet and telecommunication networks within five years. The company's concentration on new bus...07 Mar 2002

  • Network Associates in a bind

    Network Associates has been subjected to a denial of service attack that took advantage of the recently publicised vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) server, which affects ...01 Feb 2001