Faced with the discovery of a serious flaw in the Internet’s workings, computer network administrators around the world have been rushing to fix their systems with a cobbled-together patch. Now it appears that the patch has some gaping holes.

On Friday, a Russian physicist demonstrated that the emergency fix to the basic Internet address system, known as the Domain Name System, is vulnerable and will almost certainly be exploited by criminals.

The flaw could allow Internet traffic to be secretly redirected so thieves could, for example, hijack a bank’s Web address and collect customer passwords.

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Malaysia’s local daily newspaper, TheStar, now serves video ads on its website.

TheStar.com.my has about 50 million pageviews a month, according to Alexa.com, and it serves video ads. As far as i know, Malaysiakini.com, the most visited news portal in this country has 100 million page views but I have not seen any video ads on it.

The problem with video ads is that, it requires a lot of bandwidth and even broadband users in this country will have to wait longer to load a page with video on it. Plus, the video ads on TheStar’s website plays automatically, it is even more super(hebat) than Google’s Video Ads which requires users to click on it before it plays.

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A study from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google and IBM says more than 600 million Internet browsers were at risk this year.

“Insecure Web browsers are of course a critical security problem,” the report noted. “But vulnerable plug-ins that are accessible (and exploitable) through the Web browser extend the ‘insecurity iceberg’ and form the part hidden below the water surface.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.

Ask.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterActiveCorp, had announced the all-cash deal in mid-May. Financial terms of the deal, which closed Thursday, were not released. Lexico, a privately held company based in Long Beach, Calif., debuted in 1995 with Dictionary.com.

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Web 2.0 is a phrase that gets bandied about quite a bit these days. If you ask three people what it means you’ll probably get three different answers.

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Pakistan’s government has banned access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies that users have posted on the site , an official said Sunday.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told the country’s 70 Internet service providers Friday that the popular Web site would be blocked until further notice. Read the rest of this entry »

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