Monthly Archives: May 2015

Spam Traffic Down Despite New TLD Use

The amount of spam traffic decreased by six percent in Q1 2015, but phishing campaigns are being launched in large numbers from the new TLDs, according to a report by Kaspersky Labs. “Spam and Phishing in the First Quarter of 2015” was released Wednesday, and details the continuing adaptation of cyber attacks. Continue reading

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GoDaddy Shows Strong Customer Growth and ARPU in Its First Earnings Report as a Publicly Traded Company

Web host and registrar GoDaddy released its first quarterly earnings report since its debut on the New York Stock Exchange last month, reporting double digit growth in both revenue and bookings. Continue reading

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Security, Loyalty and Speed Factor into Canadians’ Online Shopping Decisions

Consumers are buying more online and expecting their purchases to be delivered faster than ever before. In the rapidly changing ecommerce market, retailers have to move quickly in order to provide customers with the best possible end-to-end experience. Continue reading

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Vulnerability ‘Venom’ Affects Millions of Servers, Allows Access to Entire Data Center Network

Millions of servers are affected by the security flaw discovered Wednesday by Jason Geffner, a senior security researcher at CrowdStrike Senior Security Researcher. Named ‘Venom’, an acronym for “Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation” this vulnerability allows access to a host machine that can allow code execution and gives criminal the… Continue reading

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Cost of Data Breaches and Cybercrime Will Top $2 Trillion by 2019

By 2019 the cost of cybercrime and data breaches will rise to $2.1 trillion dollars, according to a new study released by Juniper Research on Tuesday. Most of these breaches come from existing infrastructure. The Future of Cybercrime & Security: Financial and Corporate Threats & Mitigation report by Juniper estimates… Continue reading

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