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Russian Hackers Top Suspect in White House Computer Breach
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
White House computer networks were hacked on Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. It is believed that the attack is associated with the Russian government. Officials who confirmed the attack wished to remain anonymous due to the ongoing...
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Swedish ISP Faces $600K Fine for Not Retaining Customer Metadata
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Swedish ISP Bahnhof has been ordered to resume the retention of customer communications data by the end of November or risk a fine of $685,000....
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DreamHost's Public Cloud Service DreamCompute Comes Out of Private Beta
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
After months of testing, DreamHost's public cloud computing service, DreamCompute, which has been in private beta for months, has left now left private beta.
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Major US ISPs Provide Connection Speeds Below Broadband: Report
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
All major US ISPs are providing connection speeds below broadband, according to a damning report from independent internet connection measuring organization Measurement Lab (M-Lab)....
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UK Domain Registry Nominet Names New CEO
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Domain registry Nominet announced on Tuesday that it has named Russell Haworth CEO. Haworth will start his new position in January 2015.
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Shellshock-Based Malware Campaign Poses Threat to Mail Servers
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Validating fears that the Shellshock bug, discovered last month, could pose a serious security threat, security researchers have discovered a Shellshock-based campaign in which malicious emails may be able to exploit a vulnerability in mail servers....
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Namecheap Among Hosts Lauded by EFF for Protecting Customers from Baseless IP Complaints
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
NameCheap and Wordpress are the best companies at protecting customers from baseless copyright and trademark complaints, according to a report released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Monday. Each received five stars, and along with...
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Partnerships Help Web Hosts Like ServInt Accept Digital Currencies
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
ServInt is now accepting payments in Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin for its managed cloud hosting services, the company announced Tuesday. To enable payments in the three open source peer-to-peer digital currencies ServInt has tapped GoCoin....
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Yoast CEO Shares SEO Trends that Create Revenue Opportunity for Cloud and Hosting Providers
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Joost de Valk, founder and CEO of SEO giant Yoast, presented a session for HostingCon Europe earlier this month in Amsterdam. He said he was surprised that when Google announced on August 6 it would use SSL for site ranking he didn't receive a...
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DigitalOcean Partners with Mesosphere to Provide Highly Scalable Distributed Application Hosting
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean has partnered with Mesosphere, a provider of resource management software for distributed applications, to help automate cluster provisioning of its cloud servers (or "droplets") and make it easier for...