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• Patchlink looking for more acquisitions, new name

  The acquisition of a vulnerability management product earlier this year was certainly not the last, according to Patchlink's international senior vice president Andrew Clarke, who also admitted a name-change is on the cards.

• ICANN board approves settlement, price hikes

  In a rare show of internal discord, the group that sets domain name regulation has approved a controversial proposal extending VeriSign's lucrative .com monopoly and allowing for price increases for those domains.

• A tangle over virus IDs

  The announcement that several major security players have joined forces to agree on a common malicious software taxonomy prompted some in the security community to question how effective such a system will be.

• Customs solves ethnic name identification headache

  The Australian Customs Service is banking on a new identity checking system, which can distinguish between different permutations of foreign names, to help improve border security.

• US-CERT to unveil global worm-naming plan

  Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Among the plethora of identifiers, perhaps the most useful -- CME-540 -- didn't make an impact.

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• US-CERT to unveil global worm-naming plan

  Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Among the plethora of identifiers, perhaps the most useful -- CME-540 -- didn't make an impact.

• How to solve IP host name resolution problems

  There are several layers of complexity in IP host name resolution that can make the process error filled. Here's how you can fix these problems quickly.

• Windows Server's identity crisis

  Microsoft changes the name of its high-end server software for the third time. Windows Server 2003 is scheduled for an April release.

• Intel names mobile chip family

  Intel has announced a new brand name for its next-generation mobile processor technology: Centrino.

• Keeping ahead of DNS attacks

  The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority, making organisations literally "masters of their own domain".

Reviews (3)

• Who do you work for again?

  Somehow it seems to me that the naming game is just getting a bit too ridiculous.

• What's in a name? Not Palladium

  Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword-bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing base."

• Intel names mobile chip family

  Intel has announced a new brand name for its next-generation mobile processor technology: Centrino.

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