An image of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( www.ornl.gov ) was hit with a spear phishing attack Friday, forcing the federal data center to cut Internet access for employees, according to a report by Wired . The federal government lab said the cybercriminals only managed to steal a “few megabytes” of information before it realized that the data was being transferred from a server. As of Tuesday, the lab could not say what the stolen data actually entailed

An image of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( www.ornl.gov ) was hit with a spear phishing attack Friday, forcing the federal data center to cut Internet access for employees, according to a report by Wired . The federal government lab said the cybercriminals only managed to steal a “few megabytes” of information before it realized that the data was being transferred from a server. As of Tuesday, the lab could not say what the stolen data actually entailed.

Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers paying for the length of time the exploits are actively infecting computers. The kits offer several kinds of exploits, or sequences of codes that can take advantage of software vulnerabilities in order to deliver malware. Researchers from Seculert have found that at least a couple of these kits — Incognito 2.0 and Bomba — offer their own Web hosting as well as a Web-based management interface.

A Columbus company was one of  nine Web hosting firms around the country raided by U.S. Marshals this week as part of a Microsoft lawsuit aimed at eliminating sources of malware and email scams.

A Columbus company was one of nine Web-hosting firms across the country raided by U.S.

Web Hosting News – SEATTLE – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced expanded functionality of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Starting today, AWS has broadened an enterprise’s networking options with Amazon VPC by letting them specify which of their Amazon VPC resources they wish to make directly accessible to the Internet and which they do not.

PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 25, 2011 – Boston, MA – TwinStrata, creator of the Cloud storage solution CloudArray®, will be hosting a webinar this Thursday, January 27, 2011 in conjunction with Amazon Web Services™ and NSK Inc. The one hour event will give an overview of how organizations can enjoy the benefits of Cloud storage by using TwinStrata and Amazon Web Services. NSK Inc, an IT outsourcing firm based in Boston was among one of the first to utilize TwinStrata’s CloudArray solution.