An image of the Botnet map from Symantec’s Global Threats website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According the release of the MessageLabs Intelligence Report, released Tuesday by security company Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) the shutdown of the Rustock botnet in March has caused the global monthly total of spam sent to drop by a third. Prior to its shutdown, Rustock had been sending out “as many as 13.82 billion spam emails daily,” says the report

A video still from Mozy’s website shows its backup service (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Intermedia ( www.intermedia.net ) announced last week that it has partnered with Mozy ( www.mozy.com ) to create a new online backup service for small- and medium-sized enterprises. The new service will launch this week and is the company’s first “foray into backup,” according to a report by Information Week

A video still from Mozy’s website shows its backup service (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Intermedia ( www.intermedia.net ) announced last week that it has partnered with Mozy ( www.mozy.com ) to create a new online backup service for small- and medium-sized enterprises. The new service will launch this week and is the company’s first “foray into backup,” according to a report by Information Week

A screenshot of Mozilla’s add-on website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source organization Mozilla ( www.mozilla.org ) regrets keeping mum about stolen SSL certificates last week, according to a report Friday by Computerworld . Hackers stole certificates from some of the Internet’s largest sites, including Google, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and its own add-on website. Late last year, a database of 44,000 inactive Mozilla usernames and passwords was publicly disclosed by Mozilla.  According to the report, on March 15 attackers used a valid username and password to acquire nine SSL certificates from a Comodo certificate reseller

An image from the website for Microsoft’s Hosting Summit 2011, which takes place this week (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a study issued on Friday by software giant Microsoft ( www.microsoft.com ) 39 percent of small and medium-sized businesses expect to be paying for cloud services within the next three years, compared to the 29 percent that are doing so right now.

A screenshot of Mozilla’s add-on website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source organization Mozilla ( www.mozilla.org ) regrets keeping mum about stolen SSL certificates last week, according to a report Friday by Computerworld . Hackers stole certificates from some of the Internet’s largest sites, including Google, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and its own add-on website. Late last year, a database of 44,000 inactive Mozilla usernames and passwords was publicly disclosed by Mozilla.  According to the report, on March 15 attackers used a valid username and password to acquire nine SSL certificates from a Comodo certificate reseller

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.

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 providers can limit the spread of malware by quickly responding to reports of compromised sites, informing customers and, in some cases, mitigating and resolving the issues, according to a new set of best practices released by StopBadware, a nonprofit aimed at fighting faulty software on the internet. The document, developed in collaboration with security researchers and major web hosting companies, aims to set expectations to help reduce the scourge of malware. Cybercriminals regularly set up malicious websites or compromise legitimate sites to host exploits, StopBadware’s Executive Director Maxim Weinstein told SCMagazineUS.com on Wednesday