How HostingCon Brought the Hosting Business to Local Startups in Boston
August 27, 2012 — Boston is recognized as one of the most active innovation communities in the country because it brings together exciting startups, renowned educational institutions, and established...
View ArticleDigiCert to Issue High-Assurance SSL Certificates in Under an Hour
August 28, 2012 — Online security and SSL certificate authority DigiCert announced on Tuesday it is now issuing high-assurance SSL certificates even faster, with the average processing time being...
View ArticleSecurity Provider Websense Discovers Fake Symantec Emails Distributing Malware
August 29, 2012 — Email and web security provider Websense announced on Tuesday that it has discovered a malicious email campaign with messages disguised as antivirus notifications. The emails appear...
View ArticleNetcraft Finds Bank, Government, Web Host Sites Using Vulnerable MD5-Signed...
September 4, 2012 — More than a thousand websites, including a few belonging to web hosts, are using SSL certificates signed using the MD5 digest algorithm, which Netcraft says is vulnerable to attack....
View ArticleSecurity Compliance Firm Trustwave Launches Security Education Services
September 7, 2012 — Security compliance provider Trustwave announced on Friday it has launched cloud-based security education services that enable organizations to better equip their employees to...
View ArticleDDoS Protection firm Black Lotus Reveals Patent-Pending Human Behavior...
September 10, 2012 — Distributed denial of service solutions provider Black Lotus announced on Monday that it has made its patent-pending Human Behavior Analysis tool available to web hosting and other...
View ArticleGo Daddy Scrambles to Bring Customer Sites Online After Massive Anonymous Attack
September 10, 2012 — Web host Go Daddy is “working feverishly” to bring its site and thousands of others back online after a single Anonymous hacker hit its DNS servers with a massive DDoS attack....
View ArticleSecure Cloud Host FireHost Gets $10 Million in Series C Funding
September 18, 2012 — Secure cloud hosting provider FireHost announced on Tuesday that it has raised $10 million in funding in a series C round financed entirely by the company’s existing investors,...
View ArticleSecurity Provider Comodo Launches Endpoint Security Manager v2.1
September 18, 2012 — Internet security provider Comodo announced on Tuesday that it has released a new version of its Comodo Endpoint Security Manager. Comodo Endpoint Security Manager 2.1 is used to...
View ArticleNetcraft and GlobalSign Partner to Help Web Hosts Identify Phishing URLs
September 19, 2012 — GlobalSign will help web hosts identify customers that may be unknowingly hosting a phishing URL through a new partnership with Netcraft, according to an announcement on Wednesday.
View ArticleWordPress Issues 4.2.1 to Patch Critical XSS Vulnerability
A critical zero-day WordPress XSS vulnerability disclosed late Sunday night has been patched with the Monday release of WordPress 4.2.1. The cross-site scripting vulnerabilityallows an attacker to...
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