Wednesday 6 October 2010

.ly domain space to be considered unsafe

Unfortunate, when there is no central control over Domain Name registration this stuff can happen.

Article here

The Libyan Domain Name Registry is grabbing back .ly domain names and stating that less than 4 character domain names in the .ly namespace must be held by Libyan residents. In addition, websites in this domain space must comply with Libyan Sharia Law.

Wondering what impact this will have on bit.ly, owl.ly and ad.ly?

Hacking the D.C. Internet Voting Pilot

Very good article on the pilot test of the system which will allow overseas military personal to vote online.

A shell-injection vulnerability which allows the remote commands to be executed.

Evil happens when you allow the temp file to retain commands in the file extension.