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📅 - Russian Ecommerce Firm May be Ignoring Crime, According to Security Researchers - Deer.io, a Russian ecommerce shop has allowed dark web activity in the open, according to Digital Shadows, a threat intelligence and security analysis firm. Digital Shadows has alleged that many of the products sold by Deer.io are stolen or breached data. They also believe the company advertises in cybercrime and hacker forums.
Tessa88, a cybercriminal who breached both MySpace and LinkedIn is associated with darkside.global, which is hosted by Deer.io.
Deer.io provides secure and anonymous hosting, along with DDoS protection, side building and automatic payment systems. They have been referenced on Softpedia in connection with cybercrime, but no investigations are underway.
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📅 - After Long Outage, DreamHost Works to Get Email Services Working Again - DreamHost experienced a long outage after extremely high loads on the homiemail-sub3 and homiemail-sub5 email clusters. The email outage started last Monday and as of Friday, they still didn't have an idea of when services would be restored.
Last Tuesday, DreamHost believed the outage would only impact some of their customers for a few hours. However, it's still not resolved for some customers and others dealt with an outage for ...
📅 - Report Finds Cloud Adoption Linked to Organizational Resilience - Organizations that are leading cloud adoption appear to outperform competitors in the category of organizational resilience to technology risks, The Economist's Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Sungard AS report in their latest research. The report, titled Cloud complexity: The need for resilience shows that nearly three-quarters (72%) of organization executives see their organizations' resilience to tech risks as a growing priority looking into the next three years.
The executives also believe that moving workloads over to the cloud is going to be a key part of a proactive strategy for achieving resilience against technological threats.
The survey looked at more than 300 executives from a vari
📅 - Quarter One of 2016 Grew By 12 Million Domains Registered, According to VeriSign - VeriSign released a Q1 2016 Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed the total domains registered, including all TLDs, has reached 326.4 million. This is up 12 million from Q4 of 2015 or a total of 3.8%. The total number of domains redirecting to popular ecommerce and social media sites grew significantly, too.
VeriSign processed a total of 10 million new .com and .net domains in Q1 2016. This is up 1.3 million compared to Q1 of 2015. Redirects to LinkedIn from a .com or .net rose by 35%, while those leading to Twitter, Facebook, Amazon.com and Etsy rose between 23% and 30% depending on the site. Weibo, a Chinese social media site, saw redirects jump by 49%.
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📅 - Key Data Center Certification Achieved by Web Werks - Web Werks, a web hosting provider, has achieved a key data center certification for one of its data centers. The PCI DSS certification was achieved for the IBM-built Tier 4 data center found in Mumbai. This certification allows for companies to manage credit cards and collect credit card payment information.
Web Werks is headquartered in Mumbai, India with about 5,000 customers across the globe. The company was established in 1996 and has been one of the leading data center providers in India ever since. They offer services ranging from cloud to VPS to dedicated server hosting to colocation.
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📅 - DNC Says Hackers Accessed Clinton Campaign Data - The Clinton presidential campaign confirmed that some of it's campaign data was accessed by hackers in the latest development of what security experts are calling a “broad operation by Russian operatives to infiltrate U.S. political organizations.”
In a quote released by a DNC spokesperson, Nick Merrill, the DNC held that “An analytics data program maintained by the DNC, and used by our campaign and a number of other entities, was accessed. . .Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cyber security experts. To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised.”