Grant Gross

Domain registrar VeriSign Inc. defended its now-suspended Site Finder search tool recently, saying concerns about its effect on the stability of the Internet and on the amount of spam are overblown.

The U.S. Congress needs to move forward with anti-spam legislation, even though the U.S. and the European Union have different ideas on how to classify spam, two members of the U.K. House of Commons said Wednesday.

Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook e-mail program and peer-to-peer (P2P) software have been included for the first time on the System Administration, Networking and Security (SANS) Institute's annual list of the 20 security vulnerabilities most exploited by attackers on the Internet.

VeriSign Inc. faced a series of questions about the September launch of its Site Finder search page from members of an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) committee Wednesday, with members questioning why the company didn't poll the technology community about the possible effects before launching Site Finder.

The U.S. Congress needs to move forward with antispam legislation, even though the U.S. and the European Union have different ideas on how to classify spam, two members of the U.K. House of Commons said Wednesday.

Moving IT jobs outside of the U.S. is necessary if technology companies want to remain competitive in a world market, a group of software vendor chief executive officers (CEOs) said last week.

Some government agencies in the U.S. hope to outsource some IT functions to private vendors, but they have concerns about the political fallout if outsourced jobs were to go overseas and in some cases don't know enough about their IT assets to make an informed decision on what to outsource.

Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook e-mail program and peer-to-peer (P2P) software have been included for the first time on the System Administration, Networking and Security (SANS) Institute's annual list of the 20 security vulnerabilities most exploited by attackers on the Internet.