December 31, 2009 — Even though spam levels are down from this same time last year, spammers and bot herders will continue to plague the Internet until those responsible face prosecution for their crimes. For the time being, however, many more institutions are picking up the fight and are actively attempting to counter the botnet threat, in one way or another.
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Archive for December, 2009
TJX Hacker Admits to Other Crimes
Posted in December 30th, 2009
December 30, 2009 — According to a report posted to the Register on Wednesday, the hacker responsible for the notorious TJX hacks of several years ago pleaded guilty to other attacks this week, and faces a minimum sentence of 17 years.
Streaming Services Prepare for New Year’s Eve Coverage
Posted in December 30th, 2009
December 30, 2009 — In partnership with The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, Livestream will be streaming a six-and-a-half hour feed of the traditional ball drop in New York City’s Times Square for free around the world.
Web Hosting Year in Review: Investment and Finance
Posted in December 30th, 2009
December 30, 2009 — For businesses in just about every industry, 2009 was marked more by the state of the economy than by any other individual factor. The recession from which we may or may not have now emerged wreaked wide and well-reported havoc on the automotive, banking and insurance industries, and did varying degrees of damage to other businesses.
Web Host Opus Begins Construction on Data Center
Posted in December 30th, 2009
December 30, 2009 — Managed hosting provider Opus Interactive announced on Tuesday it has begun construction on a new data center in Portland.
DDoS Attack Targets DNS Provider for Amazon, Expedia
Posted in December 29th, 2009
December 29, 2009 — An attack directed at Neustar, the domain name system services provider for Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Expedia, and other large e-commerce companies, took several Internet shopping sites offline the night before Christmas Eve, taking out sites completely or rendering them sluggish for about an hour, and leaving some last-minute shoppers in a lurch.
Web Hosting Year in Review: Data Center Construction
Posted in December 29th, 2009
December 29, 2009 — There were many high-profile data center builds announced this year, but five data center projects in particular stood out, both in size and financial investment.
Court Orders Websites Suspended In Libel Case
Posted in December 29th, 2009
December 29, 2009 — As part of its response to a libel lawsuit filed by IT consulting company Apex Technology Group, a New Jersey judge ordered hosting and domain providers to take down three websites opposing the H-1B work visa last week, according to a lengthy article published in Computerworld on Monday.
Terremark to Open Second Virginia Data Center
Posted in December 29th, 2009
December 29, 2009 — Managed infrastructure services provider Terremark is set to open its new “ultra secure” data center in northern Virginia in the first quarter of 2009, according to a report by InformationWeek.com.
Web Hosting Year in Review: Hosting Software and Technology
Posted in December 28th, 2009
December 28, 2009 — The original promise of cloud computing - computing served as a limitlessly scalable, always accessible, dependable utility - is finally being realized by both consumers and businesses thanks to advances in hosting software and technology, and 2009 has been a crucial year to that effect.