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About 75 percent of domain name system (DNS) servers in Australia and NewZealand are vulnerable to Denial-of-Service attacks, and 55 percent may becompromised at the root level. The figures represent a considerable risk tomany Web sites, according to Sydney-based security consultancy DeMorgan.
SYDNEY -- Australian retail giant Coles Myer announced it has acquired the rights to the source code of the Peapod home shopping software. A letter of intent, signed Thursday, will give Coles Myer the rights in perpetuity to operate the software exclusively in Australia and New Zealand.
International fight against online crime gets a boost with new cooperative information-sharing enterprise
About 75 percent of Domain Name System (DNS) servers in Australia and New Zealand are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks and 55 percent may be compromised at the root level. The figures represent a considerable risk to many Web sites, according to Sydney-based security consultancy DeMorgan.
New Zealand's Y2K Readiness Commission said that noabnormalities had been experienced in the country'sutilities in the first half hour after midnight.
The 21st century arrived on Planet Earth earlier today and early reports are that the Y2K computer bug has not created anyserious disruptions - at least, not just yet. "The power is on, the phones work, my ISP is still functioning, and my police scanner indicates no problems downtown.
Opponents in what was expected to be the first legal test of the newly-enacted Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act have opted not to try the case in court and have settled their dispute. Domain holders Justin Nicholas and Aaron Brett of New Zealand have agreed to transfer the AmericasCup.
Japan said the millennium bug had so far not affectedelectricity, telecommunications, water distributionor aviation. The upbeat status report echoes similar early dispatches from Australia and New Zealand, which rung in the new year earlier in the day.
A federal district court judge in Oakland, Calif. is expected to rule next week on what may be the first legal test of the newly signed Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
ORBS, a New Zealand organization that tests networks for bad e-mail filters without waiting for spam complaints, is fighting spam with spam. The thousands of e-mails needed to poke and prod a system for weak links are considered spam by one of the groups ISPs, AboveNet.