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.

The PCI Compliance Myth That Could Cost You Money

2009-04-15

Everybody's talking about Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and, if you're an e-commerce merchant, you probably know by now that you have to bring your online store into compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS). But what does that mean to you? There's a lot of confusion about what, ...

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.

VeriSign Releases New Secured Seal

November 2, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Verisign (verisign.com), a provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced on Tuesday that it has released a new VeriSign Secured Seal that allows consumers to verify e-commerce site security before conducting business online. The company says the new seal will help boost overall consumer confidence in e-commerce - especially important with the upcoming holiday shopping season.

Verio Launches Email Defense Solution

October 28, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Verio (verio.com) announced on Thursday that it has launched an email defense solution for its shared hosting customers in partnership with MX Logic (mxlogic.com).

ShopSite Releases Version 7.1

October 19, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- ShopSite (shopsite.com), a provider of e-commerce software for small and medium-sized businesses, announced on Tuesday that it has released version 7.1 of its flagship shopping cart system. ShopSite 7.1, the company said, includes support for digital and physical gift certificates, XML support for product page uploads and downloads, and improved fraud protection.

Symantec Offers Email Fraud Solution

September 21, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Information security firm Symantec (symantec.com) announced on Monday that it has launched the Symantec Online Fraud Management Solution, designed to help financial institutions and online retailers diminish the chance of email fraud.

Switch and Data Ordered to Pay $10M

September 8, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications firm and data center operator Switch and Data was ordered by a jury in Travis County, Texas to pay more than $10 million for backing out of its lease for office space in downtown Austin, according to a report published last week in the Austin American-Statesman.

Phishing Sites Average 54 Hour Life

August 16, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Anti-Phishing Work Group (antiphishing.org) reported that the average phishing Web site is online for 54 hours, while some have been able to stay online for more than two weeks before being abandoned or shut down, according to research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com).

Phishing Impact Grows, MessageLabs Says

August 10, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- MessageLabs (messagelabs.com), a provider of managed email security services, said on Tuesday that the impact of phishing attacks is comparable and in some cases, has exceeded that of some viruses.

US Identity Theft Bill Signed

July 16, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- US President Bush signed a new identity theft bill into law Thursday,

ReadyMadeHosts Holds Start-up Seminar

June 16, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- ReadyMadeHosts.com (readymadehosts.com), a division of Internet solutions provider RedTape Holdings Group (redtapeholdings.com), said on Tuesday that it is holding five-day training seminars for entrepreneurs interested in establishing Web hosting companies.

Phishing Scams On Rise, Netcraft Says

May 26, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to a report by research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) that cites data from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (antiphishing.org), April saw yet another surge in phishing scams with 1,125 unique schemes being perpetrated, up 180 percent from March's total of 402 scams. The total is the highest ever recorded and according to the report, is 4000 percent higher than the November 2003 tally of 28.

Switch and Data Sued by Node Com

May 25, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications carrier Switch and Data (switchanddata.com) is facing a $5 million lawsuit by Node Com (nodecom.com), a developer of data center facilities, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

New Bill Targets Online Fraud

May 17, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports, the House Judiciary Committee has approved the Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act, a bill that targets Web site operators for deliberately registering false domain name information.

Potential CassTel Link to Mob Explored

Last month, US prosecutors made several indictments against Lexitrans Inc. and other shell companies based in Overland, Kansas, believed to be linked to the mafia. These companies allegedly ran adult Web sites and 900 numbers that defrauded customers by illegally charging for subscriptions to services advertised as free.

Phishing Attacks on Rise Netcraft Says

Phishing attacks involve the mass distribution of "spoofed" or forged email messages with return addresses, links, and branding which appear to come from legitimate financial institutions but are designed to lead recipients towards fraudulent Web sites that attempt to trick them into divulging personal data such as account usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and social security numbers.

Regulations.gov Spoofed in Phishing Scam

Netcraft said the scam attempts to replicate a fraudulent version of the regulations.gov Web site, using it to steal credit card data and other sensitive information.

New Phishing Scams Using SSL

Phishing attacks involve the mass distribution of "spoofed" or forged email messages with return addresses, links, and branding which appear to come from banks, insurance agencies, retailers or credit card companies, but are designed to lead recipients towards fraudulent Web sites and trick them into disclosing sensitive personal data such as account usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and social security numbers.

Proposed Law to Penalize Domain Fraud

The new law targets people who provide false domain name contact information, increasing prison sentences by up to seven years.

SurfControl Says Spammers Evading New Law

SurfControl says it has noticed three significant changes in spam content that are designed to feign compliance and even capitalize on loopholes in the new law. They include spam with graphic messages containing a disclaimer letter and physical address, spam claiming its primary purpose is non-commercial, and questionable email and opt-out mechanisms.

MyDoom Damage Reaches $22.6 Billion

According to mi2g, economic damage is a measure calculated in terms of loss of business, bandwidth clogging, productivity erosion, management time reallocation and cost of recovery.

Netcraft Releases New Data, New Tool

Microsoft increased its share of the Web server market from 20.87 to 21.00 percent, an increase of 0.13 percent. The increase represented a rise in aggregate totals from 9,596,571 to 9,675,979. Apache, on the other hand, saw its share drop from 67.43 to 67.38 percent. The decrease represented a drop in aggregate totals from 31,005,690 to 31,040,922. SunOne saw its market share drop by 0.07 percent, while Zeus's share remained steady at 1.63 percent.

Flaw in Internet Explorer Allows Spoofed URLs

December 15, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A flaw in Microsoft's (microsoft.com) Internet Explorer allows fraudsters to create HTML code that makes the browser display an incorrect or "spoofed" URL in its address and status bars, according to a post made last Friday by Netcraft (news.netcraft.com).

International Opportunities

October 2004