IFPI Uses Pirate Bay Case To Target Hosts

May 7, 2009 -- Following the four copyright convictions of individuals responsible for the file-sharing website the Pirate Bay, music industry lobby group IFPI is now contacting hosting providers of torrent sites in Sweden in an effort to shutdown some customers.

ISPs block child porn sites

Posted on 2008-06-11

As has been widely reported, three of the nation’s largest, ISPs have entered into an agreement with New York’s Attorney General Cuomo in which they will begin blocking certain sites alleged to contain child pornography.  While it&rs

Redbus Earns Security Accreditation

June 15, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Colocation and managed services provider Redbus Interhouse (interhouse.net) announced on Tuesday that its Amsterdam data center is the first in Europe to be awarded the BS7799 accreditation, a benchmark for information security.

RIAA Offline Again, MyDoom Suspected

May 17, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Web site for the Recording Industry Association for America (RIAA.com) is again suffering significant downtime, a report by research and analysis firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) says. The site was down on Sunday, May 16 and again on Monday, May 17.

RIAA Online Intermittently, Using Linux

The site was apparently brought down by a denial of service (DoS) attack launched by computers infected by a variant (MyDoom.F) of the MyDoom virus. The variant, which emerged a few weeks after the virus first appeared, could pose a recurring problem because it is programmed to launch a DoS attack against RIAA between the 17th and 22nd days of each month.

RIAA Site Remains Offline

The site appears to have been brought offline by a denial of service (DoS) attack. In late February, a variant of the MyDoom virus (MyDoom.F) began spreading, nearly a month after MyDoom first appeared. The virus was programmed to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack against the Web sites of Microsoft and the RIAA.

RIAA Site Offline, MyDoom.F Suspected

The site going offline appears to be the result of a denial of service (DoS) attack. In late February, a variant of the MyDoom virus (MyDoom.F) began spreading nearly a month after MyDoom first appeared. The virus was programmed to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack against the Web sites of Microsoft and the RIAA.

Three Dutch Web Hosts Move to Redbus

Under the deals, all three companies will migrate the majority of their entire networking and hosting infrastructures from Telecity (telecity.com) and InterXion (interxion.com) to Redbus Interhouse in Amsterdam. The migrations will involve a total of 4,000 servers that host approximately 30,000 customers.

MyDoom.F Drives RIAA Web Site Offline

The new variant of the MyDoom virus, called the fastest spreading and worst virus of all time, installs a DLL which opens a backdoor, allowing it to be attacked. According to Panda Software, when the system date of the infected machine is between the 17th and 22nd of any month and any year, the virus will launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the RIAA and Microsoft Web sites, with 2 out of 3 attacks targeting Microsoft.

New MyDoom Variant Spreading

The latest variant of the virus, MyDoom.F, deletes Microsoft Word and Excel files on a victim machine's hard drive and other images and videos. According to research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com), the MyDoom.F variant is similar to its predecessors, opening a backdoor on the victim machine. It also possesses its own SMTP engine, spreads through email attachments and is programmed to launch denial of service attacks (DoS) against Web sites. The latest variant is programmed to launch attacks against Microsoft.com and riaa.com, the Web site for the Recording Industry Association of America.

Anti-Piracy Campaign Dealt Major Blow

December 22, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A ruling made Friday in a US appeals court has dealt a major blow to the recording industry's efforts to take legal action against online music pirating by ruling that it cannot force Internet service providers to identify their customers. The federal appeals panel overruled a lower court decision that granted the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) the right to see customer information from Internet service provider Verizon Communications Inc.

ProServe Chooses Redbus Interhouse for Colo

December 16, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Netherlands subsidiary of Redbus Interhouse (interhouse.net), a colocation and managed services provider based in England, said on Monday that Netherlands-based Web hosting company ProServe (proserve.nl)has migrated virtually its entire networking infrastructure, 200 customers and 2,000 servers to Redbus Interhouse's facility in Amsterdam.

Record Companies Drop Suit Against ISPs

August 22, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Recording Industry Association of America has reportedly dropped a lawsuit against a number of major ISPs that sought to shut down a music copying site based in China.