Archive for February, 2006
Avoiding the Web Hosting Nightmare
Posted on 05. Feb, 2006 by .
TweetUltimately, the true test of a web host comes from your own experiences with them. With this article, I wanted to compile some of the experiences of a few people to bring to you cautions when choosing a host: clients, friends, and myself. I’ll also then give you a few points you have to consider [...]
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Dealing With Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Posted on 05. Feb, 2006 by wiredgorilla.
TweetDistributed denial of service attacks are frustrating — they’re frustrating for the company under attack, and frustrating for the web host. They can also be costly in terms of business and goodwill lost. Fortunately, there are ways to deal with them, if you are willing to prepare for the possibility of a DDoS before it [...]
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Domain Names Cybersquatting on the Rise, Says WIPO
Posted on 05. Feb, 2006 by .
TweetDomain Cybersquatting is at its highest level in four years. Is the dispute resolution system still working? Or are other factors causing problems?
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Police Look To MySpace For Sex Predators
Posted on 05. Feb, 2006 by .
TweetSocial networking websites are not only tools for criminals and social pariahs to mine their perversions, but also increasingly for law enforcement to collect evidence and set traps. MySpace.com is the latest online area being scoured, this time to find information related to seven teenage girls who say they’ve been assaulted by men they met [...]
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Google?s Move Into Radio: What Does It Mean?
Posted on 04. Feb, 2006 by .
TweetGoogle made headlines last week when it agreed to pay $1.1 billion for dMarc, a Newport Beach-based company that makes a suite of radio station automation tools.
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IBM, Google, Team On Open Ajax
Posted on 04. Feb, 2006 by .
TweetThe old line and the new guard in technology joined a group focused on delivering an open source project based at promoting the adoption of web development using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML technology.
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Google tosses IRS under the BUS
Posted on 04. Feb, 2006 by .
TweetDuring its earnings announcement, Google noted how higher than expected taxes caused the company to miss Wall Street expectations.
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Stop PHP nobody Spammers
Posted on 03. Feb, 2006 by .
TweetPHP and Apache has a history of not being able to track which users are sending out mail through the PHP mail function from the nobody user causing leaks in formmail scripts and malicious users to spam from your server without you knowing who or where. Watching your exim_mainlog doesn’t exactly help, you see th [...]
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cPanels fix for perl
Posted on 03. Feb, 2006 by .
TweetJohn Wigle reports : This email was sent out to all of those who directly purchase cPanel licenses, of course if you are like most people and do not directly own a license but get it through a datacenter you never got this email. I have pasted it below which also contains a fix for [...]
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HELP! My server is under a DDOS attack!
Posted on 03. Feb, 2006 by wiredgorilla.
TweetOk first just take a breath, you are getting nothing done by worrying. This guide is meant to try and help mitigate the effects of an attack that is in progresss. I have compiled a lot of the things that I do but it is very possible I have forgotten something. Please feel free to [...]
