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Dennis Fisher, Executive Editor
ICANN,
the organization that controls the top-level domains, has pulled the
accreditation of EstDomains, a hosting provider that has been under fire
for months from the security community for allegedly providing a safe haven
for spammers, malware authors and other undesirables. This is a major and
rare move on ICANN's part, one that may signal a new willingness to play a
bit of hardball with hosting providers who don't police themselves.
Antispam activists and security experts
for months have been telling anyone who would listen that EstDomains was
closely linked to Intercage/Atrivo, a hosting provider that is now out of
business, but had been listed as one of the more active hosters of spam and
malware operations.
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IBM USB banking
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Metaforic crosses
swords with software pirates
Metaforic joins a number of vendors in the
application-hardening market with a technology that embeds protections in a
program at compile time.
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Weekly: Examining Microsoft's emergency bulletin
Jason Miller, security data team manager at patching vendor
Shavlik Technologies, talks about Microsoft's emergency bulletin MS08-067
released last week. Microsoft is now warning that malware exploiting the
Microsoft RPC flaw is in the wild.
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