During last 1 month, I’m facing strange and unique kind of problems. My web server got banned. My hosting accounts got suspended, and one hosting account got problems with it.

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Yahoo!’s free online email service is to grow new tentacles with the company planning to add two domains alongside its existing “@yahoo.com” addresses. The struggling internet firm said it is to introduce “@ymail.com” and “@rocketmail.com” to give people who use its service a better choice of Yahoo! email address options.

According to industry stats, the company has about 266 million peeps across the globe with a Yahoo! email address, making it the most popular web-based email in the world, ahead of Microsoft’s Hotmail and Google’s Gmail.”We recognise that people want an email address that reflects who they are,” Yahoo! Mail vice president John Kremer told Agence France-Presse.

Microsoft’s TownSquare internal social network provides employees with feeds and updates about their colleagues

At the request of its SharePoint and Office product development teams, Microsoft ’s Office Labs operation has created and is testing a prototype of an internal social network that can provide employees with feeds and updates about their colleagues.

Chris Pratley, general manager of Office Labs , is slated to disclose details of the prototype — called TownSquare — Thursday at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. He spoke to Computerworld about the project, which was launched in January and has already been used by about 8,000 Microsoft employees.

With a layout that is strikingly similar to Facebook.com’s (in which Microsoft invested $240 million in October 2007), TownSquare is fueled by enterprise news feeds that use Web services to query SharePoint for public information, such as promotions and company anniversaries, about an employee.

TownSquare also notifies users when a document or file is modified. Users can customize their feeds and monitor who is receiving information about them.

In early January, Pratley’s group told 100 Microsoft employees about the network. Since then, 8,000 employees who learned of TownSquare by word of mouth have visited the network at least once, Pratley noted. About 700 use it daily.

Some Microsoft customers, which he declined to name, are testing the TownSquare network for use in their companies.

Office Labs works as a sort of advance development team that tests technology concepts suggested by employees and, as in this case, development teams. Pratley stressed that TownSquare is not a product, but a platform to test the technology concepts. By hammering out the various likes and dislikes of its users before releasing a product, “We’re trying to get version three goodness into a first release,” he added.

“We have instrumentation ?so we know which things people use,” Pratley noted. “We share that with the client teams we work with. They take the knowledge about usage so they don’t make so many mistakes in product design.”

Many third party vendors have targeted SharePoint as the core data source for information to feed their enterprise social networking and other Enterprise 2.0 applications. Several have announced upgrades to their products or new integration with SharePoint this week at the conference.

Anecdotal evidence has shown that employees like the TownSquare tool, Pratley noted. Employees especially appreciate being able to monitor the creation and editing of documents by colleagues, he added. One employee used the network to find a sponsor within Microsoft to fund her trip to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.

“That is the kind of information that spreads through an enterprise social network,” he said. “By posting it out there, the people interested can pick up on it, and other people can ignore it. It’s a way to keep in touch in a social way with people you work with.”

Like Facebook , TownSquare also includes a photos of users and allows them to note when they are away from their workstations, such as at a meeting or in the cafeteria for coffee.

While some employees have expressed initial surprise at all the information that Microsoft has about them in its intranet, once people see the type of information that is included in the feeds about them, “they see it’s pretty safe stuff and say okay,” Pratley said.

By Heather Havenstein, Computerworld

‘Slap in the face’ to UK business, says SEO firm

The hosting of UK government sites such Job Centre Plus and the Pension Service in the US is a slap in the face to UK businesses, according to search engine optimisation firm NetCallidus.

Routine research and analysis performed by the the company discovered a number of .gov.uk sites being hosted in Sunnyvale, California.

“At a time when the UK economy is teetering on the edge of a recession, this is an out and out insult,” said Mark Furber, managing director of NetCallidus.

“There is no good reason why this work should be given to another country. It might save a few pounds, but sends the wrong message about how much the government cares about British business.”

Furber believes that this socially irresponsible and that the work would be better done by a UK business anyway.

“We always advise our clients to host their websites in the country they are aiming at, as it is one of the factors that can influence search engines like Google.”

“These sites are clearly aimed at UK people so should be hosted in the UK to ensure that the highest number of people find them.”

Furber also highlighted issues around latency, security and management as reasons for governments to host public service sites within their own country.

The various departments were not immediately available for comment regarding this issue.

Written by Ian Williams

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The way the internet handles website domains is going to change, following an update to the core “addressing system”.

If we continue with the current way of allocating web addresses, we will run out of available domain names by 2011.

So the internet’s master address book is being updated to include records written in a new format, IP version 6, which will help to create millions of new potential web addresses.

The problem occurs because people and the internet use two different methods to call up web pages: we type words into the address bar of our browser, whereas our computers translate that into a string of numbers to find the page that you are looking for. This numerical string is taken from the internet’s master address book of domains.

Most numerical web addresses are currently written in IP version 4, but from today, the internet’s root servers will also be able to handle records written in IP version 6. It means that computers and servers that use IP version 6 will be able to bypass IP version 4 completely when retrieving pages on the net.

Although the impact of this highly technical switch will be felt mainly behind the scenes, there is a possibility that at some point in the future, customers may have to upgrade some of their home computing equipment, such as internet routers, to handle these new long addresses. However, experts stress that such upgrades are a long way off.

A January Netcraft survey estimates that there were last month 155,583,825 WEB SITES ON THE INTERNET. Two other interesting data points: 1) Growth had slowed from 5.4 million new sites in December to just 354,000 new sites in January; and 2) Apache serves, which have been in the lead but suffering a long decline has been surging lately, and at the expense of Microsoft.

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The government is more worried about political, economic and technical espionage than terrorists when it comes to cyberattacks, the government’s Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure (CPNI) revealed last week.

A spokesman for CPNI said the centre was particularly concerned that cyberspies were using social engineering tricks to persuade people to give them sensitive data, circumventing IT security systems.

According to reports, the CPNI has written to 300 top businesses warning that Chinese hackers are particularly active and to take special precautions against them.

In a speech to journalists in November, the director general of MI5, Jonathan Evans, said, “Despite the Cold War ending nearly two decades ago, my service is still expending resources to defend the UK against unreconstructed attempts by Russia, China and others to spy on us. A number of countries continue to devote considerable time and energy trying to steal our sensitive technology on civilian and military projects, and trying to obtain political and economic intelligence at our expense.

“They do not only use traditional methods to collect intelligence but increasingly deploy sophisticated technical attacks, using the internet to penetrate computer networks.

“It is a matter of some disappointment to me that I still have to devote significant amounts of equipment, money and staff to countering this threat. They are resources which I would far rather devote to countering the threat from international terrorism - a threat to the whole international community, not just the UK .

Security software house McAfee warned last week that it expected industrial espionage to be the major threat to businesses in the coming year, Some 120 countries are testing one anothers’ network and database defences, it said.

Speaking at the launch of the annual Sans Institute report on the top 20 threats to IT last week, a spokesman for CPNI said defending against social engineering attacks was difficult because it required users to have a balance between naivete and cynicism.

A spokesman for CPNI said attackers often pretended to be in authority over the victim, and used tricks such as threatening to fire them. In a likes and similarities attack, the attacker pretended to see the victim as a kindred spirit and groomed them.

A reciprocation attack involves “doing favours” for each other, and a social validation attack uses the approach that “your friend or boss did me this favour, please will you help me”. Scarcity attacks put pressure on the victim to rush them into insecure behaviour.

Awareness and training were good defences, but a spokesman for CPNI said people need to practise to overcome their shyness in confronting requests for insecure acts.

“There are also times when an attacker can exploit your actions even when you are just doing you job,” he said. “This can happen when you feel you are just a cog in a broken machine,” he said.