News (36)

  • 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.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (5)

  • 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.

Create an e-mail alert for "name"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
name


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 2 .com
  2. Popularity: 3 .name
  3. Popularity: 2 act
  4. Popularity: 1 apologise
  5. Popularity: 1 apology
  6. Popularity: 10 auda
  7. Popularity: 4 australia
  8. Popularity: 2 cme
  9. Popularity: 1 computing
  10. Popularity: 2 court
  11. Popularity: 1 destra
  12. Popularity: 3 disspain
  13. Popularity: 3 dna
  14. Popularity: 7 dns
  15. Popularity: 26 domain
  16. Popularity: 2 domain name
  17. Popularity: 3 domain names
  18. Popularity: 1 domainz
  19. Popularity: 1 enetica
  20. Popularity: 3 european union
  21. Popularity: 2 federal
  22. Popularity: 1 generation
  23. Popularity: 4 gray
  24. Popularity: 5 icann
  25. Popularity: 5 internet
  26. Popularity: 1 internetnz
  27. Popularity: 2 ip
  28. Popularity: 4 it
  29. Popularity: 4 melbourne
  30. Popularity: 2 melbourneit
  31. Popularity: 6 names
  32. Popularity: 1 next
  33. Popularity: 1 palladium
  34. Popularity: 4 patrick
  35. Popularity: 2 practices
  36. Popularity: 3 rafferty
  37. Popularity: 2 registrant
  38. Popularity: 2 registrar
  39. Popularity: 2 registration
  40. Popularity: 2 regulation
  41. Popularity: 2 regulator
  42. Popularity: 1 secure
  43. Popularity: 2 security
  44. Popularity: 8 server
  45. Popularity: 1 tpp
  46. Popularity: 2 trade
  47. Popularity: 2 verisign
  48. Popularity: 2 virus
  49. Popularity: 4 web
  50. Popularity: 2 windows

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured