08|16|2010 6:14 pm EDT Millions of Network Solutions Parked Pages Were Serving Malware by Adam Strong in Categories: Miscellaneous – 1 Comment Armorize, a web security company, reported on their blog today that Network Solutions had been displaying a widget box that contains malware .  The company was notified and quickly remedied the parking pags.  Based on a yahoo search only, there are over 5 million domain names with NSI parked landers that may have been affected by this drive by malware

Download torrents to a VPS in the US, then download from the VPS to your PC using HTTP AeroVPS, a Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting company in the state of Delaware in the USA, is offering customers a torrent downloading facility. The specialised torrent downloading packages from AeroVPS comes in two flavours: TorrentFlux (TFVPS) and Transmission (TRVPS) and are currently available for $11.50 per month.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Jason Silverglate of DedicatedNow Outlines the Anatomy of a Cloud News: VeriSign’s Fran Rosch Explains the Importance of Building Trust Into the Cloud News: Disruptive Strategies and Technologies: Avoid Them or Lose Ground: Panel News: Bullish on Data Centers, with DH Capital News: Q&A: Jason Silverglate of Fortress ITX on the Cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Building trust online is a major challenge for businesses – and is all the more important given that some high-profile Web properties has led visitors to malware. In his Wednesday presentation, “Protecting Your Cloud: Security, Trust, and Opportunities”, VeriSign trust services senior vice president Fran Rosch discussed the many ways in which companies can build trust into their hosted services.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Jason Silverglate of DedicatedNow Outlines the Anatomy of a Cloud News: VeriSign’s Fran Rosch Explains the Importance of Building Trust Into the Cloud News: Disruptive Strategies and Technologies: Avoid Them or Lose Ground: Panel News: Bullish on Data Centers, with DH Capital News: Q&A: Jason Silverglate of Fortress ITX on the Cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Building trust online is a major challenge for businesses – and is all the more important given that some high-profile Web properties has led visitors to malware. In his Wednesday presentation, “Protecting Your Cloud: Security, Trust, and Opportunities”, VeriSign trust services senior vice president Fran Rosch discussed the many ways in which companies can build trust into their hosted services.

For only the second time since Big Blue entered the Unix market for real in February 1990 with the launch of the RS/6000 line of workstations and servers, the company is letting customers who use its Power-based servers take a future AIX release for a test drive in an open beta program. The AIX 7 open beta, which launches today, gives customers a download of the binaries in a DVD ISO image that they can burn onto media and install on the last several generations of Power machines. You can get the AIX 7 code here .

Apple’s App Store Rivals Seen Gaining Thanks to the popularity of the iPhone, Apple holds the top spot now when it comes to mobile app stores. But telecom research firm Ovum predicts that’s set to change over the next four years, with rivals like Android and the BlackBerry poised for tremendous growth. That change could even see Apple be unseated by Android, according to Ovum’s Mobile Application Download Forecast 2009-2015 report, which found that app stores collectively will grow by a compound annual growth rate of about 41 percent globally over the next five years, with total downloads topping 21.2 billion — up from 2.69 billion in 2009.

07|02|2010 4:41 pm EDT US Authorities Seize Domain Names of Download Sites by Frank Michlick in Categories: Legal Issues – 1 Comment Share Tags: Tags: .MUSIC , Department of Justice , domain names , download , files , Immagration and Customs Enforcement , movies , National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center , seize , Spiral Matrix . 1 Comment Cindy July 2, 2010 @ 5:24 pm EDT What a waste of gov’t resources.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Provides Insight into Power, Google Apps, Google AppEngine and the Rackspace Cloud News: 3Sixty Holdings Buys Web Hosting Pioneer AIS Network News: Microsoft Announces 2010 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year Finalists and Winners News: Web Host 1&1 Internet Introduces 24/7 Customer Support Forum (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Research suggests that Internet users became impatient after waiting just 2 seconds for a page to load. With this in mind, Strangeloop ( www.strangeloopnetworks.com ) has launched Site Optimizer, a powerful Web acceleration product that shaves valuable seconds from page load times, resulting in proven return on investment

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Microsoft Announces 2010 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year Finalists and Winners News: Web Host 1&1 Internet Introduces 24/7 Customer Support Forum News: Strangeloop Announces Cloud-Based Website Acceleration Solution Blogs: WHIR tv Interviews Sören von Varchmin of ePages News: VeriSign Denies Comodo’s Claim of Security Vulnerability (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Research suggests that Internet users became impatient after waiting just 2 seconds for a page to load. With this in mind, Strangeloop ( www.strangeloopnetworks.com ) has launched Site Optimizer, a powerful Web acceleration product that shaves valuable seconds from page load times, resulting in proven return on investment

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Phoenix NAP Passes PCI DSS Audit, Validating its Physical and Procedural Security Efforts News: Spiceworks Integrates Rackspace Cloud Email Services News: Comodo Adds Auto Sandbox Technology in Internet Security Complete Version 4 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Comodo Security Solutions ( www.comodo.com ) is stepping up its end-user security in its latest version of its PC security suite, which now features embedded Auto Sandbox Technology. Set for release this week, Comodo Internet Security Complete Version 4.0 include to Comodo’s new patent pending Auto Sandbox Technology, which automatically addresses all potentially unsafe files by running a user’s questionable files in a restricted virtual environment, without slowing users’ activities.