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  • Bing! MS to relaunch Aussie search

    Speculation that Microsoft is planning to shortly relaunch its search engine in Australia under the "Bing" name has intensified after the software giant registered the bing.com.au domain name.

  • US Judge gives death sentence to Wikileaks

    A US federal judge in California has pulled the plug on Wikileaks.org, a Web site that specialises in posting leaked documents often provided by whistleblowers.

  • US government renews ICANN contract

    The US government this week renewed its contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, effectively extending its grip on the administrative body that coordinates Net addressing until 2011.

  • Seek targeted by phishing campaign

    Online job site Seek has become the latest victim of a phishing campaign, with an e-mail circulating that attempts to gather confidential details from advertisers.

  • ICANN told to clamp down on dodgy domain names

    A US government study into the prevalence of phoney Web sites has found that 3.89 million domain names, or 8.6 percent, were registered with false or incomplete information.

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  • Who should govern the Net?

    ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf fires back at critics who say his organisation impedes innovation on the Internet.

  • How ethical hacking saved the day

    What should you do if your hacked servers are being used for illegal purposes? Read this case study to find out.

  • Turn your PDA into a network analysis tool

    PDAs can be expensive, but because they're so flexible, you can recoup your investment by using them for network administration tasks. See how you can use a PDA such as the Compaq iPAQ as a portable network analysis tool.

  • ICANN urged to scrutinise domain claims

    An Internet taskforce is calling for increased accuracy of domain-name owner data and the elimination of bulk marketing that uses domain-name information.

  • Firewalls: Keeping the outside out

    Firewalls protect your network from outside attacks, but what can you do when those pesky users keep taking their computers outside your network? ZDNet Australia investigates.

Reviews (4)

  • Spyware cures may cause more harm

    Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: So-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase.

  • Keeping the outside out: Seven desktop firewalls tested

    We all know about firewalls protecting your network from outside attacks, but what can you do when those pesky users keep taking their computers outside your network? And what if the attack isn't coming from the outside at all?

  • Is Linux taking over the enterprise?

    These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • eSpective

    Knowing about the visitors to your Web site is not only a useful marketing tool but is also a way to tailor your site to their needs. Telemate.Net Software's eSpective is a set of reporting tools that can monitor any Web server and provide extremely detailed data its visitors.

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