I don’t know whether you remember this but Sarah Palin – the Republicans’ vice-presidential candidate for the last US election – was in the news (amongst other things) prior to that election as a result of her email account getting hacked.

Basically, some kid exploited Yahoo’s password reminder feature whereby he used publicly available information to answer Ms Palin’s security questions (she erred by putting in silly stuff as her 2 security questions).

There are numerous other cases of people using social Read more »

The following domain names are either listed for sale on SnapNames, are in auction or are about to drop and can be back-ordered with SnapNames. They are directly linked to the bid screen.

ulr.info – very similar to url, nice name. seyo.com waja.com civilization.org reflections.org sq5.com flightforum.com dubailodge.com cashgames.net hitups.com z9p.com cakeworld.com eescorts.com latestbooks.com

Enjoy and good luck!

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Tata Consulting Services’ (Indian IT outsourcing company) tcs.com domain name/website had it’s DNS hijacked yesterday with the hijackers putting a simple “for sale” sign up according to theregister.co.uk.

The firm managed to get their name back today but only after getting the hackers quite a bit of publicity from various security/hack sites.

The for sale text asked for all inquiries to be sent to abed_uk@hotmail.com.

Ironically, tcs.com prides itself at being a supplier of web security services.