A chart from MessageLabs illustrating a big decline in the volume of spam emails (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports posted last week on the MessageLabs Intelligence blog, operated by the Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) unit, the organization’s scanning has seen a rise in malicious attachments accompanying spam email The post on the MessageLabs blog says that while spam email traffic in general fell dramatically, as expected, following the shutdown of the massive Rustock botnet in March, the company’s spam traps saw a big increase in the volume of spam data hitting its spam traps , in spite of the declining number of emails. The reason turned out to be an increase in the number of emails with .zip file attachments being sent out by the Cutwail botnet, meaning a big increase in the average size of each email, in terms of data. That volume of spam data has been fairly well sustained since March 26, which suggests a bit of a shift in spamming tactics.

A view from inside one of CoreLinks data centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Chicago-based data center operator CoreLink Data Centers ( www.corelink.com ) announced on Wednesday that its suburban Chicago data center will play host to a day-long advanced training event for the Business Resumption Planners Association ( www.brpa-chicago.org ) on April 26. The event will be led by crisis communications expert Robert C. Chandler, who will provide “critical proactive and reactive information” on how to handle a range of business emergencies and disasters

A small selection from a long list of unqualified domains to which SSL certificates have been issued (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a report issued this week, online watchdog group the Electronic Frontier Foundation said that  certificate authorities are issuing SSL certificates for unqualified domains in large numbers, a practice that the report’s author Chris Palmer says could impact the integrity of the whole SSL system, and puts Internet users at increased risk of attack. Certificate authorities, says Palmer, are only supposed to issue certificates for public names – that is, for fully-qualified domains that reference a specific machine.

A small selection from a long list of unqualified domains to which SSL certificates have been issued (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a report issued this week, online watchdog group the Electronic Frontier Foundation said that  certificate authorities are issuing SSL certificates for unqualified domains in large numbers, a practice that the report’s author Chris Palmer says could impact the integrity of the whole SSL system, and puts Internet users at increased risk of attack. Certificate authorities, says Palmer, are only supposed to issue certificates for public names – that is, for fully-qualified domains that reference a specific machine. Palmer’s research into data in the EFF’s “SSL Observatory” uncovered large numbers of certificates signed by CAs for domains typically used as internal-network shorthand, such as “mail,” “wiki,” or “intranet.” “In the Observatory we have discovered many examples of CA-signed certificates unqualified domain names,” he writes.

What is in it for you? Building a website is not a difficult task, but maintaining it is quite critical. It requires most of your time, hard work & expenditure in maintaining a website manually irrespective of size of your organization.

A sceenshot of a Ruby tutorial on its website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Bytemark Hosting ( www.bytemark.co.uk ) announced on Monday that it will sponsor this year’s Scottish Ruby Conference ( www.scottishrubyconference.com ). The annual conference for Ruby programmers and developers will be held from April 7 to 9 in Edinburgh at the Royal College of Physicians

What is in it for you? Building a website is not a difficult task, but maintaining it is quite critical.

A sceenshot of a Ruby tutorial on its website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Bytemark Hosting ( www.bytemark.co.uk ) announced on Monday that it will sponsor this year’s Scottish Ruby Conference ( www.scottishrubyconference.com ). The annual conference for Ruby programmers and developers will be held from April 7 to 9 in Edinburgh at the Royal College of Physicians.

The most highly attended ICANN conference to date may also be the meeting we will look back on as the precise moment when the Internet business ceased to be synonymous with the Wild West. As ICANN and the satellite businesses and organizations which support the function of the Internet gain notoriety and publicity and institutionalized “big business” steps into the space as players in the New gTLD realm, the existing community must also step up its game.

A screen shot of South Dakota’s Ready to Partner website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development ( www.sdreadytopartner.com ) announced on Thursday it has partnered with officials from Sioux Falls, Vermillion and Yankton to attract data center builds to the state. The partnership is part of the GOED’s co-op marketing program, which allows the state and local entities to combine their resources and better leverage marketing dollars