Archive for July, 2008

Ex-Google engineers debut new search

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it’s not for sale.
Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive […]

Internet security flaw fixed

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Computer experts have released software to tackle a security glitch in the internet’s addressing system.
The flaw, discovered by accident, would allow criminals to redirect users to fake webpages, even if they typed the correct address into a browser.
Internet giants such as Microsoft are now distributing the security patch.
Security expert Dan Kaminsky said that the case […]

ICANN Domain Names Stolen

Monday, July 7th, 2008

On June 26 the domain names icann.com and iana.com were temporarily taken over. The attack allowed for the perpetrators to direct those websites to whatever location they wanted. ICANN claims that the incident only lasted for 20 minutes before being fixed. However, it may take up to two days for all internet directories to be […]