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Beware the Comfort Zone

I've seen it happen time and again to programmers, network engineers and administrators, and other IT personnel.

Worm Sobers Up FBI, CIA

The ever-popular Sober worm is making the rounds again in a new and exciting format. The ugly little worm is circulating through email and it looks all nice and official because someone is receiving email from either the FBI or the CIA. Many may ask what they've done wrong to warrant attention from the FBI or CIA. Nothing much really you just happen to have…

X Marks The Vice President In The Blogosphere

CNN offered an apology on Tuesday after an apparent technical glitch put a big black "X" over the face of Vice President Dick Cheney. The mishap only lasted a fraction of a second but leave it to the blogosphere to turn it into a major diatribe.

Dot-US Domain Registry On The Rise

In the United States, where dot-com is still king, few have paid attention to the sudden spike in activity at the dot-us (.us) domain extension, which grew by 21 percent in the third quarter. Many of these .us domains are being bought by companies based outside the USA. Over the past 12 months, .US registry DNS lookups have increased by 250 percent to approximately 10…