Bruce Upbin / Tradigital:
Color, A Twitter For Photo And Video, Launches With Million — Color, a new photo-centric social network, will launch on March 24 with a big slug of venture money and an app available from iTunes or the Android Market in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The Palo Alto, Calif. startup was created …
Paul Roberts / threatpost:
Phony SSL Certificates issued for Google, Yahoo, Skype, Others — A major issuer of secure socket layer (SSL) certificates acknowledged on Wednesday that it had issued 9 fraudulent SSL certificates to seven Web domains, including those for Google.com, Yahoo.com and Skype.com following a security compromise at an affiliate firm.
Joab Jackson / PC World:
Sun.com Name Could Fetch Oracle Million — Last year, when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, it got a wealth of customers, technologies and personnel for its US.4 billion. It also obtained one of the choicest domain names on the Internet, Sun.com. — Now that Oracle …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later — Five years ago, I wrote a story called “25 Things I Hate About Google.” It went viral, to my surprise. I thought it was worth revisiting that story on its five year anniversary, to see how many of those “hates” have been fixed.
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
A Seedy New Neighborhood For The Web: XXX Domain Approved — The Internet is about to get a seedy new neighborhood: the body governing top-level Internet domains has approved a new .xxx domain for porn, despite objections from the adult entertainment industry.
Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:
ICANN Approves New .XXX Top Level Domain — ICANN Board approves new .xxx domain name. — Today the ICANN Board of Directors authorized the CEO of ICANN to execute the proposed registry agreement for the .xxx sTLD with ICM Registry. — ICANN’s Board of Directors didn’t agree with GAC advice on the issue.
Richard Boscovich / TechNet Blogs:
Taking Down Botnets: Microsoft and the Rustock Botnet — Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit — Just over a year ago, we announced that the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), in cooperation with industry and academic experts, had successfully taken down the botnet Waledac in an operation known as “Operation b49”.
Jeffrey Meisner / TechNet Blogs:
Taking Down Botnets: Microsoft and the Rustock Botnet — Just over a year ago, we announced that the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), in cooperation with industry and academic experts, had successfully taken down the botnet Waledac in an operation known as “Operation b49”.
TechNet Blogs:
Taking Down Botnets: Microsoft and the Rustock Botnet — Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit — Just over a year ago, we announced that the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), in cooperation with industry and academic experts, had successfully taken down the botnet Waledac in an operation known as “Operation b49”.
Krebs on Security:
Rustock Botnet Flatlined, Spam Volumes Plummet — The global volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide took a massive nosedive today following what appears to be a coordinated takedown of the Rustock botnet, one of the world’s most active spam-generating machines. — Rustock spam volumes, from M86 Security Labs