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City Room: Web Entries Under a Senate Hopeful's Name Stir Furor
A public furor erupted on Monday more than inappropriate Web entries published below the name of Marc Cenedella, a Republican businessman who has been traveling across New York State trying to build assistance for a candidacy for the United States Senate.
The response came on the day The New York Times published an report noting that until finally lately, a Internet site, website.theladders.com/rock, bore Mr. Cenedella’s photograph and the title “The personal blog of Marc Cenedella.” It contained a number of entries containing random observations about sex, females and drugs.
The entries had headlines like ”Sexy vs. Skanky,” ”Dating Advice… Continue reading
Internet domain name expansion comes under fire
A program to broaden the amount of Net domain names came under fire in the US Congress on Thursday, a day following the head of the Federal Trade Commission stated it could potentially be a “disaster.”
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international body which manages the Domain Name System that types the technical backbone of the Net, will begin taking applications in January for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), the suffixes this kind of as .com, .net or .org.
ICANN’s strategy would enable for the creation of hundreds of new gTLDs, letting businesses… Continue reading
Shock image threshold falls under internet pressure (Reuters)
PARIS (Reuters) – The threshold for publishing gruesome photos like those of Muammar Gaddafi’s death is falling as the net and social media make several of the editorial decisions that utilized to be left to a modest group of skilled journalists.
The shaky video footage of Gaddafi’s final moments was such a dramatic finish to Libya’s months-long struggle against its former dictator that several television stations all around the planet rushed to broadcast much of what they received.
Newspapers followed up on Friday morning, some splashing graphic photos of the bloodied former Libyan leader across their front pages whilst others… Continue reading
Authenticity of Web pages comes under attack
The keepers of the World wide web have turn out to be acutely concerned about the Web’s core trustworthiness.
Hackers cracked three businesses that work with the most common Net browsers to ensure the authenticity of Net pages exactly where consumers form in delicate details, this kind of as account log-ons, credit card numbers and individual data.
The hacked firms are among more than 650 digital certificate authorities, or CAs, throughout the world that make sure that Net pages are the real deal when served up by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome.
But a hacker… Continue reading
Yahoo’s board under fire after firing of CEO Bartz (AP)
LOS ANGELES – An activist investment fund disclosed Thursday that it has bought a 5.two % stake in troubled Internet portal Yahoo Inc. and called for sweeping alterations to the board.
A public letter from Daniel Loeb, chief executive of investment adviser Third Point, comes right after Yahoo’s board fired CEO Carol Bartz on Tuesday right after two 1/2 years on the job, a move she bitterly criticized in an interview published Thursday.
Loeb stated the board created a “critical misjudgment” in hiring Bartz, and he criticized it for taking so prolonged to fire her provided her “abysmal performance.” He… Continue reading
Internet subscriber figures up Down Under
Seventeen % much more Australians logged on in 2010 that in the prior year, according to ACMA’s announcement. Nealry 15.1 million people more than the age of 14 (83%) employed the Web in the final quarter of 2010, up from 14.2 million in the very same quarter of 2009.
E-commerce sites and social media/networks had been some of the main activities driving folks on the web, with 7.4 million persons accessing retail and auction websites, 8.4 million making use of social networking internet sites and 5.five million accessing video streaming sites at house.
These activities account for the increases in… Continue reading
Apache Web Server Under Stealth Attack
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Slideshow: ten Substantial Security Breaches
On the web attackers seem to enjoy to exploit Net servers, due to the fact they can add scripts that swiftly and automatically add malicious links to static HTML pages via an iFrame tag, or code that attempts to exploit website visitors’ PCs via drive-by downloads.
But an attack discovered on Friday, dubbed Apmod, pushes this attack technique a single step additional by not just infecting static Web pages. “The attack was unusual in that the Web server itself was the infection target,” stated Cathal Mullaney, a security response engineer… Continue reading
