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S'pore spam rate crosses global average
News Country's spam levels surpassed the global rate of 89.4 percent in July, after dipping below earlier in April, according to MessageLabs' latest security report.
Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Singapore, spam message, social networking, Symantec Corp., Germany, Web Address
Set up split-brain DNS with Active Directory integrated zones
Techguide Learn how to configure conditional forwarding in Windows Server 2003 when a split-brain DNS setup is called for.
Tags: Domain names, Web servers, Domain Name, DNS Server, Domain, Environment, Server, DNS, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows
Slow site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that
News Sure, rivals could profit from Yahoo's release of Traffic Server as open-source software. But overall, Yahoo bets it'll gain more than it loses by giving it away.
Tags: Web sites, Web servers, Yahoo! Inc., Open Source, Google Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Traffic Server, Microsoft Corp., software, Web sites
MessageLabs: Short URLs in e-mail spam spikes
News E-mail spam that includes truncated Web addresses sees a dramatic increase, MessageLabs says.
Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Security applications/tools, Domain names, Spam filtering, Twitter, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., security provider, Spam
New exploit targets IE 7 hole patched last week
News Windows users are being urged to get the latest Microsoft security update or risk getting attacked via a hole in IE 7 that can be exploited to install a backdoor.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, PC security, Data security, Firewalls, Viruses and worms, Security Management, Microsoft Corp., Security, Trend Micro Inc., Attack
Facebook hit by phishing attacks for a second day
News After fighting off another phishing worm designed to steal people's usernames and passwords, social-networking site is investigating whether attacks are related.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Phishing, Password, Facebook, Web Address, Web, Viruses and worms, Spam and phishing
ICANN to vote on internationalized domain names
News An ICANN voting session on Thursday could see internationalized domain names, trademark domain extensions and .xxx become a reality.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Domain Name, Domain Extension, ICANN, Microsoft .NET, board meeting, Web Address, Internationalized Domain Name, president
Yahoo confirms acquisition of Xoopit
News Web pioneer purchases the start-up to add new photo features to Yahoo Mail.
Tags: Networking, Google Picasa, Yahoo! Inc., photograph, Yahoo! Mail, online photo, Web Address, Flickr, blog posting, financial terms
Google speeds up Chrome
News New beta gives the browser a 30 percent speed improvement, HTML 5 functionality and visual tweak.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Document Object Model, Video, JavaScript, Web Address, blog, Automatic Update, Web, Web browsers
Google SearchWiki offers custom search results
News Company gets a taste for collaborative search: SearchWiki lets people promote Web sites they like, delete ones they don't, and share comments.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Google Inc., Open Source, DuPont Co., Google SearchWiki, Search Result, Web Address, Wikia Inc., Web Site
Convert Excel calculations to literal values
Techguide Copying Excel data to a different location can send your calculations into a tailspin. Avoid problems by using Paste Special to copy values rather than formulas.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Symbol, Web Browser, font, font color, Figure, Insert, Microsoft Excel, Web Address
Gmail 'vulnerability' turns out to be phishing scam
News Google's probe into reports that a vulnerability was being used to hijack domains finds instead a scheme to trick users into revealing sensitive information.
Tags: E-mail clients, Web services, Spam and phishing, Phishing, Security, Google Inc., Vulnerability, Attacker, e-mail, Web Address
URL shortening is hot--but look before you leap
News Fueled by Twitter's popularity, services to abbreviate Web addresses are taking off. They bring a host of problems, but some are working to fix them.
Tags: Web sites, Network administration/implementation, Spam and phishing, Twitter, Web Page, Database, Service, ROI, API, DNS
VMware unfazed by Microsoft's guerrilla marketing
News CEO Paul Maritz has dismissed Microsoft's marketing tactics at the VMworld conference as the strategy of a virtualization underdog.
Tags: Virtualization, Marketing, Microsoft Corp., Conference, VMware Inc., software, software virtualization, Web Address, leader, Las Vegas
Search giants join to tidy up Web addresses
News Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have jointly developed a way to steer search engines toward the primary version of related Web pages.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web servers, Domain names, Authentication, Microsoft Corp., Web Page, Bot, Search Engine, IM
