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  • VeriSign sticks with redirect service

    VeriSign said Thursday that it would respond to technical complaints over its recent move to redirect Internet users who enter nonexistent or misspelled domain names to its Web site, but it said it would not pull the plug on the service.

  • Aust domain administrator warns against Open Your Mind

    The .au Domain Administration has issued a warning concerning an e-mail by a domain services company run by the same man who was in charge of disgraced domain name reseller Internet Name Group.

  • Kaminsky details DNS flaw

    Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has offered more details about a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System and the extent of the vulnerability.

  • BigPond disconnecting Trojan-infected customers

    Telstra BigPond is temporarily disconnecting compromised computers from its network to stem a tide of malware swamping its servers and delaying e-mail and Web site requests.

  • VeriSign to put more backbone into the Net

    VeriSign plans to significantly increase the number of DNS servers it operates, a move that it says will make a key part of the Internet's infrastructure more resilient to cyberattacks.

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  • Can e-mail survive?

    E-mail has taken a battering over the last year or so with mountains of spam and viruses delivered to our mailboxes daily. Can the problem be fixed, and can e-mail still be free?

  • One giant step against spam

    For almost two years, I've argued for a non-proprietary, interoperable, freely deployable anti-spam standard, even as every spam-fighting solution I've seen has failed to pass muster. Until now.

  • Study: Thriving Internet blighted by bugs

    Internet usage has jumped in the last year, but digital threats--such as junk e-mail and e-commerce fraud--continue to overshadow those gains, VeriSign announced on Monday.

  • Using tech to slice spam

    A coalition aiming to junk e-mail unites behind a US law but stumbles over a technology solution.

  • Microsoft-backed antispam spec gets filtered out

    A Microsoft-backed proposal for verifying the source of e-mail has been shelved by the Internet engineers working to turn it from specification to standard, in a final blow for antispam technology Sender ID.

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