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Web Host ServInt Names Bill Goss Chief Operating Officer

Web hosting provider ServInt announced on Wednesday that it has named William “Bill” Goss chief operating officer, a position previously held by Christian Dawson, ServInt’s president. Continue reading

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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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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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Public Interest Registry Launches OnGood for NGOs to Increase Awareness Online

The Public Interest Registry (PIR) has officially launched its OnGood community website on Wednesday, making it generally available to international non-governmental organizations who register for .NGO and .ONG domain names. Continue reading

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Researchers Find Vulnerability in WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin eShop

Another vulnerability has been found in a WordPress plug-in, this one an arbitrary variable overwrite, which was publicly disclosed Wednesday by High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab. The eShop WordPress Plugin version 6.3.11 was discovered on April 15 to have insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the “eshopcart” HTTP cookie. Continue reading

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