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  1. Strong growth for Debian

    Debian is currently the fastest growing Linux distribution for web servers, with more than 1.2 million active sites in December. Debian 3.1 was declared stable in July and it appears that both the anticipation of this release becoming stable, and the release itself, have generated new interest in Debian, after some years where it had lagged behind its more active rivals. This growth is particularly noticeable at some of the larger central European hosting locations, including Komplex, Lycos Europe, Proxad and Deutsche Telecom.

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    Posted by Colin Phipps on 5th December, 2005 in Around the Net Share

  2. eBay Fooled by Fast-moving Phishing Scam

    Sometimes even the targets of phising attacks have difficulty sorting out whether an e-mail or web site is bogus. In other instances, spoof sites remain online long after they are identified as criminal scams.

    Both scenarios are found in a story related by an e-mail security researcher, who submitted an obviously fraudulent phishing site to eBay, only to have the auction company's staff e-mail back to insist that the site was legitimate and that the "bait" e-mail was sent by eBay.

    The scam site, ebaychristmas.net, was blocked on Nov. 25 by the Netcraft Toolbar community. This particular fraud site illustrates the difficulty of relying upon web hosting services to protect Internet users by taking a site offline.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 5th December, 2005 in Security Share