Friendstar is one of the early social networking sites which was overshadowed in recent times by mySpace and facebook. The company will announce Tuesday a new chief executive, Richard Kimber, the regional managing director of South Asia for Google and $20 million of new funding. Also, they are going to have a fresh look on Asia.
Makers of the software used to connect computers on the Internet collectively released software updates Tuesday to patch a serious bug in one of the Internet’s underlying protocols, the Domain Name System (DNS). The bug was discovered “by complete accident,” by Dan Kaminsky, a researcher with security vendor IOActive. Kaminsky, a former employee of Cisco Systems.
Microsoft issued a security advisory specific to its database program in Microsoft Office. The exploit permits “limited targeted attacks leveraging a potential vulnerability in the ActiveX control” for certain components of Microsoft Access.
Videos shared on YouTube and blogs scrutinizing candidates are part of an Internet-age revolution shaking up the US presidential election and sweeping in a new political era. The role of the Internet and new media is becoming more important in election results as the Internet penetration rate increases.
The Web site of Amazon.com, the Web’s biggest retailer, was down on Friday and unavailable for two hours, giving an error code to anyone visiting it.
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All domains are not equal, when you browse internet for safe web sites. Companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others, according to a report to be released Wednesday by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc.
