The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the Internet protocol.
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Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.
A US-based security company has apologised for prematurely disclosing code that took advantage of a serious vulnerability in Samba, the Linux-based file and print sharing software commonly used in Windows environments.
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We've all experienced that irritating feeling upon walking into a nearly empty restaurant, only to see little 'reserved' signs on the empty tables, and to be told by the matre d' that no tables are available even as other people enter and are escorted to their tables.
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".
Many network administrators new to Linux find it hard to transition from a point-and-click security configuration interface to one based on editing complicated and hard-to-locate text files. Here are seven easy things administrators can and should do to make their Linux server more secure and significantly reduce the risk they face.
When you have problems getting your Windows 2000 DNS server to forward name resolution requests to DNS servers on the Internet, don't assign separate servers for Internet requests. Get to the root of the problem.
Microsoft Exchange might be the most popular mail server but is it the best? We test the alternatives.
Windows 2000 and Windows XP servers can be attacked through the software ordinarily used to create secure connections to remote workers.
Microsoft Exchange might be the most popular mail server but is it the best? We test the alternatives.
Web 2.0, with its complex sites and rich Ajax applications, is an increasingly demanding platform for a browser. In this review feature, we look at how the leading browsers measure up.
Next month, Intel will bring its hyperthreading technology to desktops, another advance in the chip world that can be traced to Digital Equipment Corp.
The market for collaborative applications has grown significantly with the introduction of Web-based solutions for gathering and sharing information within organisations. In this review, we look at two of the most popular commercial collaborative platforms.
Jabber, a company that sells instant-messaging software with open-source roots, has released the first version of its server product geared to work on Windows, the company said Wednesday.
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