A diagram shows the types of application weaknesses exploited most often (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Information security and compliance solutions provider Trustwave ( www.trustwave.com ) released its Web Hacking Incident Database semiannual report on Monday. The report finds there is an increase in DDos attacks and determines that “a lack of properly implemented anti-automation defenses to ensure application availability” causes such attacks. This week the company also released its new PenTest Manager online portal for the management of penetration tests in real-time.

Web Hosting News – CHICAGO – Trustwave, a leading provider of information security and compliance solutions, has released its Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) semiannual report, which finds an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and determined that there was a lack of properly implemented anti-automation defenses to ensure application availability during such attacks. DDoS as an attack vector and notable trend for the second half of 2010 was successful in disrupting commerce and bringing down websites of large businesses and associations

Web Hosting News – CHICAGO – Trustwave, a leading provider of information security and compliance solutions, has released its Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) semiannual report, which finds an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and determined that there was a lack of properly implemented anti-automation defenses to ensure application availability during such attacks. DDoS as an attack vector and notable trend for the second half of 2010 was successful in disrupting commerce and bringing down websites of large businesses and associations.

Provo, UT (PRWEB) March 10, 2011 Leadgenix, a leader in full service Internet marketing solutions, announced today that it will assist current Heritage Internet Technologies (HIT) Web Design clients after Heritage ceased offering support to its customers.

Getting started with web hosting services may seem a little confusing when you first begin looking. Especially if the details of web hosting are new to you

Fake Twitter Notifications Lead to Spam Monday, February 28, 2011, 5:54:00 AM If you’ve received any notifications from Twitter in the last few days, chances are they”re well disguised fakes and will link you to one of many online ‘pharmacies’. The emails, titled ‘Twitter Notification’, come from the @postmaster.twitter.com address and have incorporated one of Twitter’s official email templates to look like the real deal.

An image from the controversial copyright-focused COICA bill (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a post made this week , the Electronic Freedom Foundation ( www.eff.org ) denounced MasterCard’s support for the passage of the currently-in-the-works Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, which it refers to – presumably glibly – as the “Internet Censorship and Copyright Bill.” While the news of MasterCard’s support for the bill – which could require the credit card company to suspend its services to certain websites considered within the bill’s parameters to be threats for copyright infringement – was first reported in early December, the opinion published this week is based in part on the WikiLeaks saga in late 2010, which saw many service providers shutting down services to the whistle blowing website as a kind of pre-emptive measure. The EFF post calls out other service providers, including web hosts and domain registrars

Stolen ITunes Accounts for Sale in China Thursday, January 06, 2011, 11:31:22 AM After thousands of ITunes users had their accounts hacked back in July last year, Apple promised to step up its security. However, 6 months on ITunes users have once again found themselves victims of fraudulent activity as a reported 50,000 accounts have been compromised.

All too often web site security is somebody else’s problem . It shouldn’t be.

A screenshot of the letter sent to New Hampshire’s Attorney General (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — New York City bus tour company CitySights NY ( www.citysightsny.com ) announced earlier this month that a SQL injection attack on its web server compromised about 110,000 credit card numbers.  Although the breach happened on September 26, it was discovered a month later on October 25 when a web programmer noticed the unauthorized script.  The breach became public on December 9 when a letter sent to New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney from CitySight’s parent company, Twin America, was posted online. Around 300 New Hampshire residents were among those affected by the attack.