Security experts have noted a new trend in spamming that involves surges of spam sent to individual domains to knock email servers offline, according to a new report. Read More

Idearc Media, a publisher of online directories, has purchased the LocalSearch.com URL and made a strategic investment for a virtual town square for community based news and information. The deal will be completed in the third quarter of 2007 for $3.3 million. Read More

Dictionary.com, it may just be the most expensive domain name so far. Read More

This month, experts at Websense reported a spike in the user-created sites hosting phishing schemes, such as one for eBay, Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at San Diego-based Websense, told SCMagazine.com today. Read More

AT&T Inc. has announced that Atlas, a provider of digital media technologies for agencies, advertisers and publishers, has signed an extension with AT&T. Under the terms of the contract, AT&T will provide an enterprise hosting solution for the next two years and will enable Atlas to house its entire suite of hosted application services in three fully redundant, highly available AT&T Internet Data Centers (IDC). Read More

Google released their fourth quarter financial report and reported that year to year revenue increased 63%. Read More

Microsoft Corp. has filed three lawsuits in the U.S. against people and companies it accuses of profiting from the use of Web site addresses containing its trademarked terms. Read More

What you say online really does echo for eternity. At the beginning of this month, Facebook began publicly listing users’ profiles through mainstream search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN Live. Facebook is making this part of its campaign to expand the website beyond the college community and into other networks. Read More