Are Foreign Internet Players a Threat to Yahoo in Japan?
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By Perrin, Bill; Naya, Hiroshi; Huang, Wendy; Fuchs, Robert  VOX POP  Yahoo dominates the search engine market in Japan. The entry of China's Baidu and Korea's NHN there raises the question of whether or not they can succeed.
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Tokyo, Feb. 1 (Jiji Press)--Foreign investors remained net buyers of Japanese stocks for the third consecutive week last week amid a weaker yen and global stock market strength, a Tokyo Stock Exchange report showed Thursday.  Nonresidents logged net buying of 425,233 million yen in the Jan.
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Spam messages in Chinese, Korean and Japanese are on the rise, say e-mail filtering experts.
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In spite of calls by various government officials and Internet users, proposed legislation in New Zealand suggests that spam remain a civil, not a criminal, offense. A Parliament committee suggests that an enforcement agency be founded to handle victim complaints, relieving ISPs of the burden.
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In this new post on the PHP Security Blog, Stefan Esser brings up an interesting issue when dealing with web applications - being able to bind a script/application to a different port on the local machine.   Unfortunately the ability to bind yourself to a port and receive connections is a threat to webapplications installed on different virtual hosts on the same IP, even if other security measures in place, like tight filesystem permissions or executing PHP script with the permission of the owner.   He gives an example in PHP of how this can happen and one of the scary side effects of having it in the same domain - the cookie information is passed in. It's a simple concept that could have very bad consequences in the wrong hands.    Additionally, you don't even have to create it in PHP either. As cyberlot mentions, it could be created in any language that has socket functions. Be sure to check out the comments for more thoughts and comments on the post.
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Today I was listening to the Search Pulse on Webmaster Radio and Chris Boggs of Avenue A &#124; Razorfish, who I&#8217;m meeting for a spring training baseball game tomorrow, mentioned that links in the Yahoo Directory do not use redirects or tracking code. The links in the Yahoo Directory are clean and organic which fortifies Yahoo [...]
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An online Marxist library says computer attacks from China may force the library to stop providing material in Chinese.
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Did Yahoo break U.S. law by supplying confidential information about dissidents that led to their imprisonment and torture by the Chinese government? On Monday, the Internet giant asked a federal judge in Oakland, California to dismiss a lawsuit that claims it did.
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Based on the comprehensive survey conducted by comScore on the Internet behavior of Asia-Pacific countries, Yahoo emerged as the most visited site in the Asia-Pacific region, beating rivals Google and MSN sites. Seven of the Asia-Pacific countries studied rank Yahoo in the number one position, as against MSN (no.2) and Google (no.3).  Other significant findings of [...]
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TOKYO -- A U.S.-based network security expert claimed he was censored by Japanese government officials when he attempted to give a speech in Tokyo last week about problems with the nation's controversial online citizen registry network, called Juki Net.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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An Internet browser feature meant to permit Web addresses in Chinese, Arabic and other languages could encourage online fraudsters by making scam Web sites look legitimate to visitors.
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The me-first attitude that makes the social networking site so successful in the United States may not play well in Japan, a more socially integrated society. By the Associated Press.
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They are slick and gaining popularity, but voice over internet protocol and AJAX have some big security problems that will probably get worse before they get better. Quinn Norton reports from San Diego.
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SAN FRANCISCO - About 80% of the world's estimated 1.2 billion Internet users are outside the USA, according to Computer Industry Almanac.
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A Japanese-developed adult-themed   computer game has incensed some of China's Internet surfers who   deem it a bawdy slur on the classic novel, "Dream of the Red   Chamber."
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(InfoWorld) - Cheap or free registration of new domain names drives the growth in Web sites used for spamming or hosting malicious software, according to research from McAfee. The study, released Monday, highlights continuing problems concerning how Web sites are registered and the ease with which bad actors can change Web sites to continue online scams. McAfee analyzed 8.1 million of the world's most trafficked Web sites registered on 265 top-level domains (TLDs), such as ".com" and ".biz" along with country-specific ones, such as ".jp" for Japan. McAfee offers a free tool, SiteAdvisor, that determines if Web sites send spam, host bad programs or have excessive pop-ups. McAfee, which bought SiteAdvisor in April 2006, also offers a pay version with more advanced features. Small islands with their own TLDs remain troublesome. For example, some 18.5 percent of Web sites registered under the ".st" TLD are considered "risky" for either spam or other malicious activity, McAfee said. The TLD belongs to Sao Tome and Principe, a country of two volcanic islands west of Gabon. Tokelau (.tk), a territory of New Zealand in the south Pacific, and Niue (.nu), also in the south Pacific east of Tonga, give out domains for free. That's good for scammers, who often need to register new domains as older ones are blocked by security software. Niue also allows anonymous registration of Web sites. Nine years ago the country declared "no tolerance" policy against spammers, but McAfee said it wasn't a deterrent. The safest TLDs belong to countries with stronger registration rules. Japan, Ireland, Sweden and Finland require a local postal address, while businesses in Norway have to register with the government to get a ".no" domain. Consequently, McAfee found the lowest percentage of bad Web sites in those domains. Australia and Canada, McAfee said, require a local contact for registration, which often deters spammer since registrations take more time. The ".info" domain ranked first among generic TLDs for its percentage of risky sites, at 7.5 percent, McAfee said. The domain also hosts many Web sites that send "spammy" e-mail, the vendor said. SiteAdvisor submits an e-mail address to Web sites and counts how many e-mails are received. Users have a 73.2 percent chance of receiving a spam e-mail by giving their address to a random ".info" site, McAfee said. The ".com" domain -- created in the 1980s -- came in second for risk, with 5.5 percent of its Web sites considered questionable, McAfee said. Â
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Some 40 percent of the world's Net-borne malware launched from China in June -- nearly doubling May's percentage. Australia and Spain also made no friends in Network Box's monthly survey. But a curious competition is underway in some quarters.