SearchEngineUpdate with Vanessa Zamora - 06-04-2008 Part I
Abstract: 1. Yahoo Sets Annual Shareholder Meeting Date, Agenda Announced, 2. McAfee Report Reveals Safety Of Top Level Domains
Vanessa Zamora
Video Content Producer, SearchEngineWorld
5:02 pm on June 4, 2008 (utc 0)
Transcript
Wednesday June 4, 2008
Yahoo Sets Annual Shareholder Meeting Date, Agenda Announced
August 1st has been declared the date in which Yahoo will hold its annual shareholder meeting, originally scheduled for July 3rd, where it will face billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who is preparing a proxy fight for control of Yahoo. Icahn is expected to not only propose an alternate slate of directors, but if he wins, reportedly will seek to remove Chief Executive Jerry Yang, for his failure to reach a deal with Microsoft regarding the $44.6 billion acquisition offer. Yahoo will also consider three other proposals from stockholders: one that would tie executive pay to performance, one that would set standards for operating in countries that censor the Internet and one that would establish a company committee that looks at human rights issues. Yahoo is recommending shareholders vote against all three proposals.
A new report by online security company McAfee has determined that Websites that end with .hk, which stands for Hong Kong, have the highest number of vulnerabilities, one site in five, out of any of so-called top level domains. The company attributes the high incidence in Hong Kong to the lower cost of registering domain names and the ability to register multiple domain names at once, making it easier for criminals from any location to conduct malicious attacks. Following in second, were those domains ending in .cn, which stands for China, in which 11 percent of sites were found to be compromised. Of the so-called 'generic' top level domains, such as .com and .net, .info was the most dangerous, with 12 per cent of such names posing a threat. The .com suffix was relatively safe, in ninth place, while .gov was the domain least targeted by cyber-criminals. The safest country codes were those of Finland, Japan and Australia. McAfee analyzed 9.9 million websites across 265 country and generic domains using its free SiteAdvisor service which considers malware, viruses, and the percentage of spam or feature aggressive pop-up ads it encounters in forming the findings.
