Nortel is to be the official network infrastructure supplier to the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Not only is there is a flaw in the Domain Name System, there is also a flaw in the suggested ways to test whether your computer is vulnerable.

MySpace, the social network owned by News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media, announced Wednesday that it has hired five new members for its executive team--three senior vice presidents and two vice president--in fields ranging from engineering to customer service. They're coming from a mixed background of media and tech.

There's going to be an Elvis karaoke contest on MySpace. That is not a joke. I can't seem to figure out whether it's trying to market Elvis to a younger generation or MySpace to an older one--or if it's just for kicks.

BT has bought internet-telephony company Ribbit, in a move that will bring the communications giant up against competitors ranging from Skype to Google's Android platform.

Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada can no longer access Scrabulous, the faux-Scrabble game that quickly became one of the most popular applications on its developer platform.

New search engine Cuil has opened to the public, and with it, the requisite comparisons and challenges to Google, former employer of Cuil's engineering team. But the site is experiencing much downtime in its first day.

"Spam King" Edward Davidson, who recently disappeared from the Colorado minimum security facility where he was serving 21 months for tax evasion and e-mail fraud, was found dead yesterday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

AT&T is looking to halt the proposed merger of Sprint Nextel's nationwide WiMax assets with those of Clearwire.

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Google has ended negotiations to buy social-news site Digg.com, according to TechCrunch.

Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley has just broken the news on a deadline for the final version of Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft has remained very tight-lipped about this, but we now know there will be a new version of the world's most popular browser released this year:

About two weeks ago, we covered the release of a DNS security fix meant to patch a vulnerability in the system that matches domain names with IP addresses. The flaw had been discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky some months earlier but, at the time, details on the exploit were being kept secret. That information has since leaked thanks to an accidental blog post by someone at Matasano Security. Fast forward four days, and hackers, enterprising little children that they are, have released an exploit aimed squarely at the vulnerability.

Security researchers have taken a page out of Google's book in reinventing the blacklist, a tool for blocking internet attacks.

Even though the government places heavy restrictions on the Internet with censorship and routine crackdowns on cyber dissidents, China has finally surpassed the United States for the most online users in the world.

One Internet spammer was sentenced this week to nearly four years in prison, while another fled a correctional facility and is currently on the run.

Google's Wikipedia competitor, Knol, was opened to the public on Wednesday morning.

ICANN has unanimously approved a request by the Public Interest Registry (which handles .org domains) to become the first generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) to switch to the DNS security protocol DNSSEC. As part of the agreement, PIR will trailblaze DNSSEC, while simultaneously developing an education and adoption plan that can later be disseminated across the Internet's infrastructure, PIR's use of DNSSEC is a significant step forward, but a mixture of contentious political and technological issues have slowed the worldwide development and deployment process.

The computer network hostage crisis in San Francisco is over, thanks to the city's mayor.

A division of cable provider Comcast has struck deals with three other rival cable operators to help them serve online video to their customers.

The cat is out of the bag before Black Hat. That isn't a passage from a Dr. Seuss children's book, but a description of what happened on Monday when a Web site accidentally posted details about a DNS flaw uncovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky earlier this month.

Popular social networking site MySpace said Tuesday it will join the open source authentication platform OpenID, further bolstering the idea of a unified system to carry online identities between Web sites. But for now, MySpace's OpenID accounts cannot be used elsewhere.

With its first update to Windows Home Server, Microsoft has fixed a critical bug that threatened to undermine the product's main utility--securely and reliably backing up computer files.

The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend.

AOL announced partnerships to bolster its AOL Health site with content from Caring.com, Health.com, and HealthCare.com, the Time Warner subsidiary said Monday.

NEW YORK--Kevin Mitnick knows that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.

The country's largest wireless provider announced Friday that it will finally be making good on its promises of free nation-wide hotspots for iPhone owners, first announced back in April.

NEW YORK--Using a laptop, cell phone headset, building access badge, credit cards, or even a passport can make you a walking target for data thieves and other criminals, a security expert warned at the Last HOPE hacker conference here late Friday.

BitDefender researchers are reporting that new spam messages are using fake events ostensibly involving actor Angelina Jolie and claiming the MSN Featured Offers program. Users that fall for them will be tricked into infecting their PCs with Trojan.Agent.AGGZ. The e-mail typically attempts to lure users into downloading a binary file entitled video-nude-anjelina.avi.exe. As usual, the spam message itself is written using poor grammar and uses multiple obfuscations to trick spam filters.

UK courts and police forces could save tens of millions of pounds thanks to technology to aimed at streamlining the criminal justice system.

Fresh from a failed attempt at online video, Amazon is giving it another go.

It's time that Opera Mobile got its due. Long overshadowed by Opera Mini--the light, server-fed browser for Java phones--Opera Mobile is a robust browser built on Web standards (and written with C and C++) that's known for delivering a full Web experience to Windows Mobile and Symbian phones.

Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network 1,000 times faster than home broadband.

Google's steadily increasing search share neared 70 percent in June in the US, according to new figures released on Tuesday by Hitwise.

A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Internet service providers are to be invited to tender for a government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications.

An employee of 1-800-Flowers.com has been fired after an e-mailed death threat was linked to her account.

Multimedia software maker CyberLink sees a lot of opportunities in the fast-growing netbook segment of the computer market, from online access to files stored on home PCs to multimedia software made for Linux OSs.

BT is to roll out fibre connectivity to millions of UK homes, the communications and IT giant announced on Tuesday.

A company that measures internet service reliability has given Microsoft the top score in a test of operating system update services.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer remains the most popular browser in the world. This despite report after report calling the program less secure than Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and other free competitors.

Following comments which suggested that the closure of QuebecTorrent was “a major victory” for the recording industry, we have a statement from the owner of the site to balance things up. The smaller battle against this site is over, the larger one against Canadian BitTorrent sites in general appears unaffected.

Getting poor Skype sound and want to cut down on international call costs? Truphone's new iPhone app might be worth checking out.

The next time you lose your cell phone, you might hear it scream something like "I'm stolen!" or "I'm lost - take me home," through new location-based technology now under development by a company called Yougetitback.com.

It can be hard to find a needle in YouTube's vast video haystack, despite the fact that the site is owned by search expert Google.

An appeals court in Germany has ruled that the owners of a network are not responsible for the copyright infringement of their users. The decision overturns a previous judgment that held an open WiFi network owner liable for damages, even if the infringer is a stranger making use of the network. Although the latest ruling may affect others across Europe, it's not likely to carry much weight in the US.

Yahoo today made good on a promise of opening up its search platform for third parties—including search startups—to build their own services and search engines. Dubbed "BOSS" for Build Your Own Search Service, Yahoo's offering is a major step for search innovation, but also a quiet statement that Yahoo isn't planning on taking the lead.

A German court has ruled that Internet users operating a WiFi router are not responsible if others use their equipment to infringe copyright on P2P networks. The news is likely to be seen as yet another blow for lawyers Davenport Lyons who have been insisting that German law decisions would be mirrored in the UK.

Google on Tuesday said it is now using an email-authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.

The spread of WiMax networks across the UK is continuing, with two providers announcing extensions of their business-oriented networks in the past week.

The city government television station of Des Moines, Iowa, Channel DMTV7, is using a portable production studio to produce and air daily press conferences and updates on the flood emergency. Station personnel moved from DMTV7's production studio in city hall on June 11th after the floods hit the city. DMTV7 is currently producing from the Des Moines Central Library. The production staff has moved operations twice since then.

The Department for Work and Pensions has been accused of failing to measure benefit fraud properly because of its tardiness in improving IT systems.

A security researcher has responsibly disclosed a fundamental flaw within the Domain Name System, or DNS, the addressing scheme behind the common names used on the internet.

Virgin Media, plagued by a recent flurry of bad publicity thanks to its policy of working with the music industry to warn file-sharers, has announced today that there is “absolutely no possibility” that it will disconnect its users from the Internet or hand over their details to the music industry.

Online scammers are expected to exploit the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, opening in a month's time, according to a Symantec security report.

BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Despite the lawsuits that some of the larger torrent sites are involved in, they continue to grow traffic wise. Let’s take a look at how Google ranks the top torrent sites.

"This is where we think the future of the Internet is going -- you can start to see these applications breaking out of the confines of the browser space, and try to move onto the desktop," a key Mozilla engineer told BetaNews.

Video may have killed the radio star, but it doesn't have to kill the Internet.

Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista has been in development since even before the RTM of Vista. Soon after the operating system's release, Yahoo showed off the first application that would run only on Windows XP's successor. On December 5, 2007, Yahoo! offered the first preview for download, which sported new features such as transparent windows, tabbed chatting, the ability to transfer files of up to 2GB, and a matching Windows Sidebar gadget. The first beta was released two months ago and brought voice features, SMS, and Mail alerts to the new IM client.

London's datacentre sector has suffered a downturn, with no corporates taking up space in the capital this year.

Centercode is seeking beta testers in the New York City metropolitan area to try out a new device that serves as a portable Web browser. It works via cellular network, but comes already activated and won't require you to switch from your current phone to participate.

Google apparently decided to keep it clean, in more ways than one.

If you want to make sure you have exactly the same e-mail messages--including all your saved and sent mail-on two or more Macs, there's an easy way and a hard way to do so.

On Thursday, Opera released version 9.51. The new version fixes a few security vulnerabilities and resolves some stability issues. One of the fixes addresses an arbitrary code execution vulnerability that was not previously made public.

Leaseweb, the former ISP of BitTorrent trackers such as Demonoid, What.cd and Waffles.fm lost the appeal against the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN. The Amsterdam court concluded that Leaseweb has to permanently shut down the BitTorrent tracker everlasting.nu, and hand over the admin’s personal information.

What do terrorists and telco execs have in common? They hate us for our freedoms, naturally. And they especially hate our freedom to roam the verdant grasslands of the Internet as freely as the majestic bison once wandered the fruited plains of the West. A group of mostly-indie rockers from the Future of Music Coalition agree, and they're releasing a benefit CD later this month to help fund the Coalition's campaign for a neutral 'Net.

The German baby taken from his parents after they put him up for sale on eBay for a euro--apparently as a joke--is back home, according to the Associated Press.

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new security features in the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2.

A paper will be published later this year with far-ranging recommendations for reducing cybercrime in Europe, including a statutory scale of damages against ISPs that do not respond promptly to requests to shut out compromised machines.

Taking a cue from Morgan Spurlock who lived on fast food for 30 days in the Super Size Me documentary, McAfee gathered volunteers from around the world who would, for one hour a day, surf the Internet, signing up for various newsletters, filling in various forms. As they did so, the participants were asked to blog about their experiences.