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Four Fleeing Texans Arrested In Web Hosting Fraud

January 18, 2010 — Indicted a week before by a federal grand jury in Dallas, four North Texans have been arrested in Cancun, Mexico after feeing charges of cybercrime conspiracy, according to a report from the Dallas Morning News.

Verizon Communications Acquires MCI

February 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Verizon Communications (verizon.com) announced on Monday that it has acquired MCI (mci.com) for $4.8 billion in equity and $488 million in cash, confirming reports that emerged late last Friday.

Vigilante Group Attacks Cyber-criminals

February 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, an Internet vigilante group known as the 419 Flash Mob, launched a two-day bandwidth attack last Wednesday against spammers attempting to defraud people by providing hosting services for fake bank sites.

Postini Warns of Directory Harvest Risk

February 2, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Email security and management provider Postini (postini.com) announced on Tuesday that spam mail accounted for 88 percent of all emails, while only 12 percent was legitimate, according to data gathered from the 14.7 billion messages processed by the company in January.

Vircom Offers Phishing Warnings

January 19, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Email management solution developer Vircom Inc. (vircom.com) announced on Wednesday that it has released a white paper titled Scam Prevention Guide – How to recognize a phish when you see one. The document, the second volume in its series on exposing email-borne fraud, offers an explanation on the origin of phishing attacks and advice on how to avoid them.

Netcraft Unveils Anti-Phishing Services

January 5, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) launched an anti-phishing service earlier this week in an effort to help financial institutions combat criminals and the Web hosting companies that host their fraudulent sites.

Rackforce Launches cPanel VPS Hosting

December 15, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Canadian Web hosting and Internet service provider RackForce (rackforce.com), a Canadian hosting and Internet service provider, launched on Wednesday the new ddsStorm to meet the demand for cPanel based Virtual Private Servers.

TRUSTe, GeoTrust to Educate Consumers

December 14, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — TRUSTe (truste.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to online privacy, and GeoTrust (geotrust.com), a provider of identity and security solutions, announced on Tuesday that they will work together to educate consumers about how to more easily recognize trusted e-commerce Web sites.

MidPhase Deploys Authentify Security

December 7, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet identity company Authentify (authentify.com) announced on Tuesday that Web hosting provider midPhase Services, Inc. (midphase.com) has selected Authentify to prevent credit card fraud and implement automated online order confirmation. Authentify has helped midPhase Services reduce credit card charge backs and stop criminals from setting up email accounts to launch Phishing attacks.