2008/02/13: PhysOrg: Use of Rogue DNS Servers on Rise
They're called "servers that lie." Mendacious machines controlled by hackers that reroute Internet traffic from infected
computers to fraudulent Web sites are increasingly being used to launch attacks, according to a paper published this week by researchers with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google Inc.
The paper estimates roughly 68,000 servers on the Internet are returning malicious Domain Name System results, which means people with compromised computers are sometimes being directed to the wrong Web sites - and often have no idea.
2006/05/17: BBC: Web attacks end anti-spam effort
A series of web attacks by spammers have forced a security firm to end an initiative to curb junk mail.
Israeli start-up Blue Security used a variety of tactics to make spammers clean up the lists of addresses to which they sent junk mail.
The firm also automatically filled in forms on spammers' websites to get names taken off the mailing lists.
But escalating attacks from spammers annoyed by the initiative's success has led to its closure.
2007/07/11: BBC: UK computer history gets new home
Plans are taking shape to set up a museum that celebrates Britain's role in the origins of the digital age.
The National Museum of Computing will be based at Bletchley Park where World War II code breakers built the first recognisably modern computers.
The museum's centrepiece is the rebuilt Colossus computer that broke high-level German communications during WWII.