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US gov't proposes digital signing of DNS root zone file 13/10/2008 08:54:00
Proposal to cryptographically sign records in the DNS root zone draws criticism from ICANN for being too US-centric.

The US government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet's addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers.
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Kernel developers, Wall Street to come together 13/10/2008 08:33:00
The Linux Foundation is attempting to get "high-end" Linux end-users more involved in kernel development.

The Linux Foundation is holding its first End User Summit beginning Monday in New York, in an effort to bring Linux kernel developers in closer contact with users at Wall Street institutions and other major companies.
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Report: World Bank servers breached repeatedly 13/10/2008 08:25:00
World Bank hotly denies Fox News report that hackers accessed a secret data hub maintained by the organization in South Africa.

A number of servers at the World Bank Group were repeatedly breached for more than a year by different intruders but it is not clear how much data might have been compromised in the attacks, Fox News reported Friday.
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Zoho launches e-mail app with offline, mobile access 11/10/2008 03:53:00
Zoho has added an e-mail application to its suite of Web-hosted applications.

Zoho has added e-mail to its portfolio of Web-hosted applications for individuals and organizations.
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Mafiaboy grows up; a hacker seeks redemption 13/10/2008 08:27:00
Eight years after knocking Yahoo offline, a former teenage hacker is now a legitimate security consultant.

The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours.
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Wikipedia ditches Red Hat in favour of Ubuntu 10/10/2008 07:33:00
It's moving 400 servers to Ubuntu Linux from a mix of Red Hat and Fedora

Since the free, online Wikipedia user-created encyclopedia began in 2001, the Linux-based IT infrastructure behind it has been expanded and lassoed together to keep up with the demands of the popular Web site.