A screen shot of the Europol website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Italian authorities have discovered a criminal organization that have been installing malware on the servers of businesses in an effort to spread child pornography. The Italian Postal and Communications Police were first alerted to the criminal scheme when an elderly lady informed them that a link found on an online retail site had redirected her to a website containing child pornography.

A screen shot of the Europol website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Italian authorities have discovered a criminal organization that have been installing malware on the servers of businesses in an effort to spread child pornography. The Italian Postal and Communications Police were first alerted to the criminal scheme when an elderly lady informed them that a link found on an online retail site had redirected her to a website containing child pornography

The Austrian data center from which Interxion will support CSC’s managed services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Interxion ( www.interxion.com ) announced last week that IT company CSC ( www.csc.com ) had selected its Austrian data center to support CSC’s managed services operations.

The Austrian data center from which Interxion will support CSC’s managed services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Interxion ( www.interxion.com ) announced last week that IT company CSC ( www.csc.com ) had selected its Austrian data center to support CSC’s managed services operations. CSC took a server room with an expandable cage in Interxion’s VIE1 Vienna data center to provide customers with a secure solution. “In Interxion we found an independent, well-certified partner whose core business is the operation of data centers,” said head of CSC’s managed services, Austria and Eastern Europe Andreas Keisler

Inside the server room of Baltic Data Center’s facility. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — European data center operator Baltic Data Center ( www.bdc.lt/en ) announced on Thursday it has acquired Web hosting provider Hostex ( www.hostex.com ). The terms of the agreement were not disclosed

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