An image from Symantec showing the geographic impact of Stuxnet (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a report published Monday by Iran’s Mehr News Agency, an Iranian general involved in investigating the Stuxnet worm, which targeted Iran’s nuclear infrastructure last year, said the country has been targeted by a second worm, called Stars . Quoted in the Mehr report, Brigadier General Gholam-Reza Jalali, director of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization says the country’s experts detected and are investigating the new worm, though little is known of it at this point. In the Mehr report, Jalali claims that “certain characteristics about the Stars worm have been identified, including that it is compatible with the (targeted) system and that the damage is very slight in the initial stage.” According to several reports, western security experts have been unable to confirm at this point whether Iran has identified a new attack, and if so, whether it is indeed one designed to specifically target Iran

An image from Symantec showing the geographic impact of Stuxnet (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a report published Monday by Iran’s Mehr News Agency, an Iranian general involved in investigating the Stuxnet worm, which targeted Iran’s nuclear infrastructure last year, said the country has been targeted by a second worm, called Stars . Quoted in the Mehr report, Brigadier General Gholam-Reza Jalali, director of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization says the country’s experts detected and are investigating the new worm, though little is known of it at this point. In the Mehr report, Jalali claims that “certain characteristics about the Stars worm have been identified, including that it is compatible with the (targeted) system and that the damage is very slight in the initial stage.” According to several reports, western security experts have been unable to confirm at this point whether Iran has identified a new attack, and if so, whether it is indeed one designed to specifically target Iran.

Web Hosting – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and groupware for cloud providers, today announced that it continues to build momentum with Parallels, a worldwide leader in hosting and cloud service enablement, via their cooperative technology development and sales initiatives. The two companies have partnered since 2008 delivering integrated products that work in hosting and cloud computing. “Our work with Parallels has propelled our business and will help us increase from 24 million to 40 million users this year,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange.

Verndale, a leading mid-market digital agency, continues to build on its technology partnership with Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET Web Content Management. As a Sitecore Certified Solutions and Hosting Partner, Verndale has been designing, building and supporting Sitecores entire suite of tools since 2006

A screen shot of VeriSign’s 25 years of .com website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign ( www.verisign.com ) announced on Thursday that it is awarding grants of $75,000 to four universities for their research teams to pursue projects aimed at strengthening Internet infrastructure. The grants are a part of VeriSign’s new program that is designed to promote and foster Internet innovation and in conjunction with the company’s commemoration of 25 years of .com ( http://www.25yearsof.com/grants/ ). The researchers will present their findings at a Washington, D.C

Hosting News – CUPERTINO, CA — Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced the launch of its new Zend Center of Excellence (CoE) program, creating new opportunities for PHP solution developers to extend their global reach and competitiveness while meeting enterprise requirements to augment IT staff with PHP expertise. Under the program, Zend Solution Partners that are equipped to develop and provide enterprise customers with innovative and productive applications using Zend software and PHP best practices will be eligible to earn a Zend CoE designation.  Zend marked the launch of this new program by naming OSSCube as its first Zend CoE, serving enterprise customers in the United States, the U.K. and India.

Zymic, an American Web-hosting service, on Thursday removed a website published in recent days which listed the names, photos, addresses, identity numbers and positions of hundreds of IDF soldiers and commanders accused by the site’s anonymous author of being “Israeli war criminals” during Operation Cast Lead. Although a number of soldiers who were listed said on Thursday that they were proud to be on the site, its appearance raised new questions about holes in security surrounding sensitive IDF information. RELATED: Website revealing Cast Lead ‘war criminals’ removed IDF investigates 400 complaints over Cast Lead conduct Amnesty calls on ICC to act on Cast Lead ‘war crimes’ Ben-Ari asks UN to probe US for war crimes The list even included personal information on outgoing IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen