Taiwan market: Yahoo Taiwan offers new email domain name in attempt to stem spam (Digi Times)
Yahoo Kimo (Yahoo Taiwan) on August 4 stated it will be offering a new domain name (@kimo.com) available for users of its service to register a new e-mail account. The new account is designed to be used only for email....more...Internet security flaw also affects email, says expert (America's Network)
A newly discovered flaw in the internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept email messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said....more... Emergency DNS Patch Still Vulnerable, Proves Russian Physicist (CircleID)
A Russian physicist has been able to successfully poison the latest BIND patch with fully randomized ports. In other words, the emergency fix put in place to patch the Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerability for BIND, Internet's most popular DNS software, has been demonstrated to be vulnerable -- and still exploitable by criminals....more... 'Cloud computing' heightens privacy risks (Australian IT)
THE trend to push software into the "cloud" could exacerbate privacy risks as people continue to trust information to the Internet....more... Council To Vote On Controversial Ex-Crown Wastland (Scoop.co.nz)
AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL SET TO VOTE ON CONTROVERSIAL EX-CROWN WASTELAND & THE FAILED PRIVATIZATION OF CONTAMINATION. As you may already be aware, 17 Kelly St, Mt Eden is a highly controversial piece of land....more... Massive fraud server exposed (ZDNet Australia)
A server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials and 463,582 user account passwords, according to a report published at the Black Hat conference last week....more... The Hindu Business Line : `The idea is to set up a global market for ethnic Tamil films' (The Hindu)
Diversity alone does not translate into great films. Film-makers sensitive to their roots or with something original to offer can bring out great films. Originality comes only with one's ethnicity and ethnic films can trigger a world market for Indian films....more... Major internet flaw worse than feared (Sydney Morning Herald)
A newly discovered flaw in the internet's core infrastructure also permits hackers to intercept email messages....more... Service Channels (Web Host Directory)
Dan Kaminskyâ??s presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas detailed fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System, and the extent of the vulnerability....more... |